Woman Finds A Box On Her Doorstep With A Wild Baby Inside
For Dora Wei, spotting wildlife near her home in Sri Lanka was nothing new, but finding a newborn wild boar on her doorstep was a different story. The tiny animal had been separated from her mother and was far too young to survive alone.
Wei and her boyfriend stepped in right away, warming the piglet, feeding her around the clock, and trying to give her a chance at life. What started as a rescue soon turned into a full-time routine, and the little boar quickly became part of the household.
Her name was Yezhu, and she was about to make herself very comfortable.
“I asked around about how to take care of wild boars, and everyone said it’s not easy if they are this young and that they always die without their mother, but we were determined to keep her,” Wei says.
“We read online that she would need to be fed every hour, so my boyfriend and I took turns sleeping in the living room with her for almost the first four weeks, feeding her every hour when she woke up and started crying.”
“It was really like taking care of a baby for us,” Wei added.
The little boar was named Yezhu and introduced to the family dogs. Wei worried that the piglet wouldn’t fit in with the rest of the animals, but Yezhu was determined to ensure that didn’t happen.
“She would always want to be with them, especially the Labrador,” Wei said. “She would always want to follow him and lie down next to him or sit on him.”
“She’s really nice to all the dogs, even though they bark at her when she tries to steal their food,” Wei added. “She really thinks she is one of them.”
And if you think wild instincts are brutal, wait until you see the baby baboon that fell into a lioness’ lap.
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In general, wild boars don’t have the best vision, and Yezhu was even more handicapped because she didn’t have any vision in one eye. That meant that the piglet couldn’t be sent to live in the wild on her own. So, Wei and her boyfriend built a house for the animal and even a little pool for her to cool off during the summer heat.
“Her favorite thing to do is dig up the garden and dip in her own little pool,” Wei said. “And she loves getting belly rubs while she sleeps.”
Yezhu brought much joy to her parents, and they are happy to have her.
"It was during a really hard and depressing time with the lockdown situation in the whole country when we found her," Wei said. "She really did bring us closer, and our life is more positive when we're taking care of her and watching her grow up."
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