A French court has ruled that a wild boar named "Rillette" can remain with her owner, after a long legal battle and public ...

Horse breeder Elodie Cappe found the female boar -- named Rillette after a delicacy often made from pork -- in 2023 when it was still a piglet near a complex of stables she runs in Chaource ...

Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, ...

Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, “Rillette” has now grown into a large sow with a bristly brown coat ...

Keeping the boar, though, meant Ms Cappé risked a three-year jail sentence and a €150,000 (£127,000) fine. Her appeal to a ...

A French court ruled that a wild boar named Rillette can remain with her owner, Elodie Cappe, despite threats from authorities to remove the animal from the horse farm in Chaource. The case gained ...

A French court is set to rule in coming days on the fate of “Rillette”, who was found as a tiny piglet outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023. Now a big sow ...

Animal rights activists in France are mounting a vigorous campaign to spare the life of a wild boar named Rillette, adopted as a piglet by horse breeder Elodie Cappe. Authorities threaten to euthanize ...

Local authorities weren't happy with the arrangement and threatened to remove Rillette from her loving home, opting to instead put her back on the county's kill list. Rillette's story quickly went ...