Outreach Manager Michelle Alvarez spends some time with Mario the pig at Catskill Animal Sanctuary on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 in Saugerties, N.Y. Mario and Audrey, in background at left, were ...

It was pig heaven, at least for a while. A vegan activist paid about $40 to adopt a piglet — which she named Jixy Pixy — and save it from the slaughterhouse, then spent $500 on cab fare… ...