A VEGAN family who saved a piglet from a slaughterhouse could lose their council house after their neighbour filed a complaint.
Georgie Williams, 47, and her daughter Teddi, 16, have been told they must give up their miniature piglet or risk being booted out their home in Crowborough, East Sussex.
They are desperate to keep him and fear he will be “thrown in a slaughter house” if he’s taken away.
Georgie, who is on high-rate disability allowance, found Arlo living in “awful” and “sickening” conditions in a shed and paid the breeders to have him set free.
After adopting 15-week-old Arlo she managed to get an agricultural licence so she could care for him in her three-bed home.
She planned to send him to a pig sanctuary but has now “fallen in love” with him.
Georgie now sleeps next to Arlo every night.
She said the pig – who was initially “petrified” when he moved into the family home – had helped improve her mental health.
“He knows when I’m in a state and he’ll come over”, she explained.
“It’s absolutely crazy. It calms me back down and then I can get a grip back on reality.
“It’s the same with my daughter, she’s doing her GCSEs and she’s been having anxiety. As soon as she sits down, he’ll come over and put his head on her.
“I never thought a pig could be like this. He is more intelligent, loving and emotionally attached than a dog.”
She added: “He’s not emotionally stable yet. He’s been through so much trauma, he’s not ready for a sanctuary.”
However a neighbour complained and their housing association, on behalf of Wealden District Council, told them they had two weeks to get rid of Arlo or risk losing their home.
Teddi has now set up an online petition calling for Arlo to stay in their home, which has received more than 3,000 signatures.
A Clarion spokesman said the “keeping of a pig in the property is a breach of the tenancy”.
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