Dora Wei is used to seeing unusual animals surrounding her Hill Country house in Sri Lanka, but she was taken aback when a baby wild boar came up on her doorstep in September.
“In the early morning, my gardener discovered her near my house,” Wei explained. “She had only been alive for a few hours. She’d been removed from her mother and appeared to be quite chilly.
Wei and her boyfriend knew that without a mom, the tiny animal wouldn’t survive on her own. So they made her a little sleeping area in their living room and kept her warm with hot water bottles.
“I inquired around about how to care for wild boars, and everyone claimed it’s difficult if they’re this young, and that they always die without the mother,” Wei said.
“We read on the internet that she’d need to be fed every hour, so my boyfriend and I took turns sleeping in the living room with her for almost four weeks, feeding her every hour when she woke up and started wailing.”
“For us, it was like taking care of a kid,” she continued. Wei named the wild boar Yezhu and introduced her to her four dogs. She worried that the little pig wouldn’t fit in with the pack, but Yezhu refused to be ignored by her furry siblings.
Wei explained, “She would constantly want to be with them — especially the Labrador.” “She would constantly want to follow him and sit next to him or lie down next to him.”
“She’s incredibly polite to all the dogs,” Wei continued, “even though they do bark at her when she attempts to take their food.” “She’s certain she’s one of them.”
Yezhu now does everything her canine siblings do, including resting and…
They’re having fun with their toys…
And then there’s the matter of consuming their food.
Although wild boars don’t have the finest vision, Wei realized that Yezhu was blind in one eye as she grew older. Wei and her partner constructed the tiny pig her own house outside in the garden, complete with a pool to cool down in on hot days, knowing she couldn’t be returned into the wild.
At night, Yezhu comes inside to get plenty of pets and sleep with her human and dog family.
“Her favorite thing to do would be digging up the garden and dipping in her own little pool,” Wei said. “And she loves getting belly rubs while she sleeps.”
Yezhu entered her mother’s life at the appropriate time and has provided her family so much joy. And the tiny boar is seldom seen without a grin on her face.
“We discovered her at a particularly difficult and dismal moment in the country with the lockdown scenario,” Wei added. “She brought us closer together, and our lives are more pleasant while we’re caring for her and seeing her grow up.”
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