A French court convened on Monday to rule on the fate of a wild boar adopted by a horse-breeder in 2023. The sow, known as ...

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

Animal rights campaigners in France are fighting to save a wild boar adopted as a piglet by a horse breeder but now ...

Brigitte Bardot added her voice to storm of protest sparked after authorities threatened to separate Rillette from owner ...

A wild boar adopted by a French horse breeder can remain with her owner, a court ruled on Thursday, after threats by ...

The sow, named "Rillette" grew up alongside Cappé on her farm near Chaource. "She's an integral part of the family," Cappé told Le Figaro. French authorities, however, have taken a dim view of ...

Sitting on a hay bale, French horse breeder Elodie Cappe delicately patted and lovingly rested her head on Rillette, a wild ...

She was found rummaging around the bins among rotting vegetables, and feeding off the scraps and waste at her adopted home.

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.

A French woman who has kept a wild boar as a pet since finding and domesticating the animal can keep it for now, a court has ...

But Rillette the wild boar has become something of a cause célèbre in her native France, garnering hundreds of thousands of fond followers around the world. A threat by local authorities to put ...