Last weekend, in the midst of a record-breaking blizzard on the East Coast, the Smith family was driving down a highway in Hagerstown, Maryland, when a pink dot appeared in the snow.
After realizing it was a piglet, the family took it back to their hotel, where they took turns wrapping it in warm towels.
"I explained to the kids that building an enclosure in the backyard wasn't really a realistic idea," Perry Smith told Today.com. "He was going to grow to be around 700 pounds, after all. And he should be around other pigs.”
So they decided to take it to Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Maryland. Smith said giving up then piglet, which they named Wee Wee, was an important process for the kids go through.
"It's the type of thing that you realize should be done, and that's all we've ever tried to articulate to our kids: Do the right thing -- you'll know what it is when that happens."