Monday, 31-year-old Brian Bowes was driving to work when he told the Toronto Sun he did a double take after spotting the months-old piglet lying on the inner median of Highway 401, north of the city.
He stopped and ran back to the 14-pound female piglet and covered it with a blanket.
"She was just shivering. I think she was just scared," he said.
He took the pig to the Toronto Humane Society, where veterinarians found she had a broken front leg along with numerous lacerations, likely caused by falling from a moving truck, the newspaper said.
The pig was named Wiggles by the humane society staff. They said they would seek a home for it in a petting zoo or somewhere it wouldn't face being trucked to a slaughterhouse again, the Sun said.
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