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A wild baby boar who was found just hours from death after being abandoned by its mother has been nursed back to health – and it’s all thanks to some lovely rice pudding.

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The adorable boar, named Piggie by its rescuers, was spotted shivering by a road of a store in Cinderford by shop owner Alan Bowkett. He was kept warm until rescuers arrived and took him back to Vale WIldlife Hospital.

‘He was found at the side of the road with his umbilical cord still attached and still soaking wet from birth so he can’t have been much more than a few hours old,’ said a spokesperson for Vale Wildlife Hospital.


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‘We don’t know why he was picked up on his own.’



Wildlife experts were unsure as to whether he would survive.

However, things began to look up as soon as they offered Piggie a tub of Ambrosia rice pudding, as he gobbled the whole thing up.

And now, the piglet, who also munches on mealworms and apples, can’t get enough of the stuff. His constant gobbling of the stuff has saved his life.

Seriously – if he needs saving from anything now, it’s his rice pudding addiction.

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A spokesperson for Vale Wildlife Hospital said: We’ve brought out rice pudding for him to wean him on and he instantly took to it because it’s so sweet.

‘He was first being fed milk on the bottle every two hours but we’re now topping up his bowl every two hours with rice pudding which he absolutely loves.

‘When Piggie was brought in he weighed a tiny 1kg and in just one week he’s now about 1.8kg and it’s all down to his taste for milky rice.’

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Now all Piggie needs for him and his rice pudding is a home, as staff at the Vale Wildlife hospital say Piggie is so friendly that he can’t be released back into the world.

They are currently searching for a new home for him for once he’s big enough to leave the centre.

But, of course, anyone who takes him in will need to be willing to leave a large amount of cupboard space for his copious amounts of rice pudding.

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