Family took in tiny piglet as a pet… only for it to grow into a 20 STONE giant that likes to sleep in their KITCHEN
Blossom was 'quite little' when she was adopted by the Lemon family but is now as big as a three-seater sofa.
A FAMILY took in a runaway piglet as a cute pet - only to see it balloon into a giant who hogs their living room.
Blossom was still "quite little" when she was adopted by the Lemon family but now weighs more than 20 stone and is as big as a three-seater sofa.
The kids often rest their feet on her back while watching telly when the enormous oinker goes to sleep in the middle of the room.
Her other favourite place for a nap is in front of the Aga stove in the kitchen.
Blossom is "fully domesticated" and can sit on command like a dog.
She pigs out on two bucketfuls of grub a day, but also begs for treats including bread, cheese and pasta.
Mum of four Millie Lemon, 38, said she did not tell her farmer husband David, 39, before taking in a young pig found wandering around the village of Wilton, near Marlborough, Wilts.
She said: "The first he knew about it was when he came home late at night after a harvest and heard a funny noise, and there was Blossom on the sofa.
"If I'd asked him whether we could have a pig in the house, he'd have said definitely no. So I just did it - but he is very tolerant of her."
Blossom is now part of the family along with James, ten, Douglas, nine, Georgina, seven, and five-year-old Sophie.
Millie said: "She's enormous. She's as long as the Aga, and as big as the sofa.
"She makes the garden look a bit like a battlefield.
''In the summer she comes and goes freely into the house, in the winter she mainly sleeps in an old cattle shed we have.
"She doesn't eat any veggies. She just won't touch them - which is really odd, for a pig."
As well as Blossom, the family also keep two other pigs as well as horses, ponies, alpacas, goats, dogs, cats and a budgie.
Millie said: "The dogs are quite happy having her around - but they're also wary of her.
"She'll sit down anywhere - so sometimes she'll just plonk down on top of them and squash them.
"My children's friends love it. When they come round they'll go, 'Oh my goodness, there's a pig in the garden'.
"And the kids will go, 'Yeah, that's Blossom.'
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"My kids love that we have her - but for them, it's just quite normal now.
"Even adults who come to the house will ask if they can have a picture with her."
Blossom was around 18 months old when she joined the family three years ago.
They think she was saved from a market by a local, but kept escaping from her pen and was fed by villagers.
In October a woman told how she was mauled by a rampaging 30-stone pet pig called Hammy that escaped from her neighbour's garden in Darlaston, West Mids.
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