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   From: rat.farts@latimes.com   
      
   A vegan activist who 'rescued' a pig from slaughter has been   
   slammed by animal rights campaigners after she kept it in a tiny   
   two-bed flat.   
      
   Alicia Day, 31, who lived in Southall, west London, at the time   
   had baths with the pig and even took it to Japanese chain   
   Wagamama before her landlord found out.   
      
   She paid £30 to save the eight-week old animal, called Jixy   
   Pixy, after seeing him advertised online by a farm which had   
   wanted to sell him to another farm where he would have later   
   been slaughtered.   
      
   Ms Day offered to take the pig instead and then spent £400 on a   
   taxi to bring Jixy Pixy to London from Exeter, Devon.   
      
   However on Monday her landlord found out about the pig and Ms   
   Day, who has a masters graduate in international business, had   
   to give him over to the RSPCA.   
      
   During their time together Ms Day took Jixy Pixy on trains,   
   allowed him to walk off the lead on busy city streets and even   
   took him to the park like a dog.   
      
   Ms Day said: 'I can't save them all but I thought I would save   
   one. Anything for my baby.   
      
   'I would go to the toilet and I would leave it outside and it   
   would scream until I came back. At first when I tried to touch   
   him he would jump back but within 30 minutes he started coming   
   to me when I called him.'   
      
   The pair also ventured out onto the tube and Ms Day would walk   
   Jixy Pixy in Ealing Broadway on a lead to the astonishment of   
   onlookers.   
      
   She said: 'He is even easier to walk than a dog. We would be at   
   the shopping centre in the open air and I would sit there, relax   
   and have a cup of tea.   
      
   'It was pretty crazy because there was constantly a crowd around   
   the pig and kids loved it.   
      
   'People were asking me questions and taking pictures and phoning   
   friends to say there is a pig in Ealing.   
      
   'That's when I got the idea that maybe this will highlight that   
   pigs are not just food.   
      
   'Some people told me point blank they are becoming a vegetarian   
   after meeting my pig.'   
      
   Ms Day, who is originally from New York, said she now wants to   
   explore animal rights activism.   
      
   The former carer stopped eating meat aged 12 before becoming a   
   vegan this year.   
      
   She explained: 'Since I was a child I thought pigs were really   
   cute. I guess I realised that I'm an adult now and I don't have   
   to ask my parents permission - I can basically do what I want.'   
      
   Ms Day said that Jixy Pixy's favourite things to do were sitting   
   on her lap and taking baths.   
      
   But the relationship ended abruptly when the landlord told   
   Alicia to leave the flat on November 4 - a week after she got   
   the pig. It is thought he may have seen her social media posts   
   detailing Jixy Pixy's life in London.   
      
   She decided to give the pig to the RSPCA - but not before   
   another trip to Wagamama.   
      
   She said: 'I thought I would let the pig have one more nice meal   
   at Wagamama and we sat in the outdoor seating.   
      
   'We shared the Tofu Pad Thai - he always bullies me into giving   
   him half the food.'   
      
   When the RSPCA arrived to take Jixy Pixy away, Ms Day said he   
   'started screaming and trying to run away - he didn't want to   
   go.'   
      
   Ms Day is now living in a hotel and is being supported   
   financially by her sister in California, but she has no regrets   
   about bringing the pig home.   
      
   She said: 'The sadness I am going through or the sadness the pig   
   is going through at losing me is better than him being   
   slaughtered.   
      
   'I am not going to buy more pigs because it will cause more   
   problems with the RSPCA, which was not my intention.'   
      
   Ms Day hopes to teach people that pigs are not 'dirty disgusting   
   animals' and that they can be affectionate and emotional.   
      
   Jixy Pixy is now being taken to a sanctuary in Kent and Ms Day   
   said she hopes her efforts inspire people to eat less meat.   
      
   She said: 'Even if people eat one less meal with meat then it   
   will make a difference.'   
      
   However animal experts have said Ms Day's actions showed a   
   shocking lack of judgement.   
      
   In April this year Ms Day bought a chameleon which she named   
   Daddy from a pet store in New York City.   
      
   In one post on her Instagram page it shows the chameleon   
   pictured beside a bottle of coconut body scrub with what appears   
   to also be slathered over it.   
      
   Ms Day added: 'When I was in the bath I put him in a plastic   
      
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