--- description: New Jersey woman saves pot bellied piglet with cherry danish. title: How a Cherry Danish Saved an Abandoned Piglet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How a Cherry Danish Saved an Abandoned Piglet  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 4:17 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 4:17 PM CUT Instead of pigging out on the cherry danish that she had at home, a New Jersey woman used it to lure a stranded piglet to safety. Tamala Lester, director of the Barnyard Sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Warren County, [told NBC New York ](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Pig-Cherry-Danish-Warren-County-Saved-Pig-New-Jersey-373406591.html "undefined")that she had received a call from a motorist who spotted a reportedly scared pot-bellied piglet wandering along the side of a highway on Wednesday evening. As she [recalled the events of the night on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BDUNj1VmFBM/?taken-by=barnyardsanctuary "undefined"): --- > “” --- Lester also posted videos of the pig, now named “Cherry,” sharing a pen with “Delilah the Goat” and paling around with fellow rescued animals: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4272173/how-a-cherry-danish-saved-an-abandoned-piglet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4272173/how-a-cherry-danish-saved-an-abandoned-piglet/"},"headline":"How a Cherry Danish Saved an Abandoned Piglet","datePublished":"2016-03-25T16:17:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:09.762Z","description":"It's a sweet story","url":"https://time.com/4272173/how-a-cherry-danish-saved-an-abandoned-piglet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4272173/how-a-cherry-danish-saved-an-abandoned-piglet/","name":"How a Cherry Danish Saved an Abandoned Piglet"}}]}] ```