Thankfully, when I met my boyfriend Mike, he understood that I came with ‘baggage’…
A Saluki dog called Lady, Keeli the African Grey parrot, three ferrets, two rabbits, Barney and Honey, and my two snakes, Hugo and Legless.
‘Quite a bunch!’ he teased.
Mike and I had met at Pets at Home, where we both worked. And we were both animal crazy.
Last March, after 10 months together, we bought a house and decided to add to our ‘brood’.
‘I want something different,’ I told Mike, 20. ‘Maybe a pig?’
So, we found a woman selling pet pigs in Surrey, two hours away.
First, we had to get a licence, to transport livestock and take our porker out for walks.
As soon as it arrived, in April, we collected a…
