(left) when the piglets first arrived in 2022, and their current size – credit, Little Bitty Animal Shelter, Ranchita. Retrieved from Facebook.

When a scoundrel dumped around 150 captive-raised pigs on the road in the countryside near San Diego in 2022, locals feared they would all perish.

But many of them were rescued, and NBC 7 recently caught up with 2 piglets and a sow who are now living ‘high on the hog’ at a local ranch where their ugly cuteness is helping to raise money for over 100 rescued animals like them.

Today, Mesa, Grande, and their mother Wendi spend their days chowing down and wallowing in muck, as any upstanding pig should, at the Little Bitty Animal Shelter, which was one of several local rescues that stepped up with the pigs were abandoned.

Neither community members nor police ever found out who dumped all the pigs on the dangerous Mesa Grande road, nor why they did it. Some didn’t make it, some went feral, but more than 50 were saved and taken in to live what is probably a much better life.

“Every time when we were out here and we get to spend some time with them and see them, it’s a good feeling,” said Ryan Valverde, owner of Little Bitty Animal Shelter alongside his wife.

“If someone went through the process of dumping them off, then they probably weren’t in the best living conditions leading up to that.”

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Arriving at just two pounds, Mesa and Grande are around 25 times heavier now.

NBC 7’s Joe Little got to visit the shelter to see the 3 little pigs, and their appearance on basic cable spurred donations that allowed the shelter to stock up on food and take care of some much-needed veterinary attention for their critters.

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