Molly the rescued pet was slaughtered, seasoned and eaten by a couple who adopted her from a sanctuary (Picture: RASTA)

A couple have become public enemy number one in Canada after adopting a rescue pig from a sanctuary – only to slaughter and eat her.

Molly the rescued Vietnamese potbelly pig had been lovingly nursed back to health at the Rescue and Sanctuary for Threatened Animals (RASTA) in Vancouver before being adopted by the couple in January.

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However, within a month they had killed and eaten Molly and reportedly shared the seasoning process on social media.

The sanctuary are furious and called out the couple on their Facebook page revealing their names as Austin Manson Forget and Laura Combes, who live on Vancouver Island.




The post read: ‘It takes a special type of person to adopt an animal from a rescue organization simply to take them home to kill them, and eat them.

The RASTA Sanctuary heartfelt’s Facebook post about Molly (Picture:)

‘We feel absolutely gutted and truly beyond devastated.’

And RASTA have vowed never to adopt any of their pigs again.

‘While we recognize that we could rescue more animals by rehoming them, unlike with dogs and cats, the risk of our residents ending up on someone’s plate is just too high and it’s not something we’re willing to consider.

The RASTA sanctuary called out the couple on their Facebook page (Picture: Facebook)

‘Rest in peace beautiful Molly.’

The couple will not face charges for killing Molly as it is not illegal to kill an owned animal in Canada.

Lorie Chortyk, a spokesperson for the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told Global News: ‘Because animals are considered property under the law, once an adoption agreement is made, that person is the full legal owner of that animal, whether it’s a dog, or a cat, or a pig or whatever so the minute the adoption is signed we lose all legal rights to that animal.’

Austin Forget bragged about killing Molly the rescue pig (Picture: Facebook)

Forget, who is facing a fierce backlash from animal lovers and vegans across Canada on social media, will not be allowed to adopt animals from any of the 36 sanctuaries in British Columbia.

It was not long before there was a #MollyThePig hashtag on Twitter and animal lovers from across the world got involved.

What kind of evil monsters kill a pet they adopt from an animal rescue organization? It doesn't get much more heartless than that. We need better animal protectipn laws as obviously some ppl find it to hard to be kind, and decent on their own. #mollythepig @BC_SPCA — Una Rose (@unarose7) February 24, 2018

Hey @dodo there was a sweet lil pig named Molly near my town who was adopted from the SPCA then eaten, I personally am heartbroken at the cruelty of the situation and am wondering if you’d be able to bring any light to saving sweet piggies from this fate ? please msg me if so. — Tammara ? (@lilith_vatore) February 24, 2018

Brandee McKee, who lives on Vancouver Island and also owns a pet pig, is disgusted what happened to Molly.

She said: ‘Why wasn’t it returned, why didn’t they re-home it, why wasn’t there charges being pressed?

‘That’s the sickening part of it all, that they’re getting away with it.’

‘The pigs were placed there as pets to be adopted.’

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