Is your day a bit awful? Did you burn your mouth on some coffee this morning? Are you hungover from last night and can’t recall if you actually said THAT to your co-worker at happy hour? Then let us soothe your woes with this beautiful story of a farm animal friendship! (Also, you didn’t say THAT, so calm down). Meet Alice the hen and Francisco the pig, two friends brought together by disease! It’s sweeter than it sounds, I promise.
After being rescued from a battery farm, Alice came to live at Tribe Animal Sanctuary in Scotland and met Francisco, a former “micropig” that had to be rescued after he grew into a normal-sized pig. And it didn’t take very long for the two to become best friends! via People:
A giant pig that lives in a house has a new best friend — a hen that had to be moved indoors due to an avian flu lockdown.
Both animals currently live at Tribe Animal Sanctuary in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Vietnamese potbellied pig Francisco, 4, moved to the U.K. rescue after his former owner — a teenage girl who got the pet for her birthday — could no longer care for Francisco after he grew beyond his advertised “micropig” size.
Morag Sangster, who runs Tribe Animal Sanctuary, lets him run the house along with her four dogs.
Alice the hen arrived at the sanctuary after Sangster rescued the bird from life on a battery farm used for fast food production.
In November, Alice moved from Tribe Animal Sanctuary’s outdoor area to the inside of the conservatory to avoid an outbreak of avian flu. Alice’s lockdown forced the chicken to live with Francisco. Luckily, the hen and pig became unlikely best friends.
Alice quickly became one of Francisco’s favorites thanks to her pig backscratches, which she conducts by standing on the swine and stretching her claws.
Morag says that Alice will eventually be let outside but believes that the hen will keep spending time with her favorite pig (who wouldn’t!). Imagine having your own living backscratcher! I tried this with my boyfriend, but he’s having none of it, so I’m stuck using one of those long fork things from Brookstone. I may have to stop by this farm and ask Francisco for tips on tricking…I mean working with my boyfriend into becoming my Alice!
Here’s the video of this beautiful friendship:
Pic: YouTube