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Mu Shu was just four pounds and four weeks old when she fell off a livestock truck in Kansas and was picked up off the highway and taken home by the owner of Hunter, a yellow Lab.

That was in April, and Hunter would go on to become best friends with the piglet who, before bouncing off the truck, was likely destined for a growing farm and a future as ham.

Stacie Tonn picked the unconscious pig up off U.S. Highway 50, and with help from her veterinarian husband, Shane, their four daughters and Hunter, nursed Mu Shu back to health.

Hunter licked and nudged the injured piglet, and helped her get around when she regained consciousness. Left blinded — only temporarily — by the accident, the piglet would sniff Hunter out and follow him around, curling up with him for naps, according to Kansas.com.

Seven months later, Mu Shu is now 300 pounds, and living at Walton Rural Life Center, a charter school, where she helps teach children about livestock and agriculture.

But she still gets together with Hunter, who visits her once or twice a month.

“She still knows the sound of my truck. When I pull up to her pen, she will pop out with excitement. She knows she’s going to get snacks,” Stacie Tonn said.

Walton Rural Life Center serves 167 students, from kindergarten to fourth grade, and students are responsible for feeding Mu Shu and the other animals and maintaining their pens.

“Pigs are our biggest project,” said kindergarten teacher Rhonda Roux. “If she stays healthy, we are thinking of breeding her and having a litter of piglets.”

As for Hunter, he doesn’t seem intimidated in the least by Mu Shu’s girth, or how she so quickly passed him in size since the days he was licking her motionless body.

“She had a lot of bruising and was pretty unresponsive … Neither one of us thought she would live past 48 hours,” Shane Tonn told Kansas.com in an earlier story

You can see a video of Hunter playing with Mu Shu, when she was still a piglet, here.

(Top photo, taken in April, by Mike Hutmacher / Kansas.com)

Who says people don’t want black dogs?

This is the line outside a Kansas Humane Society event in which adoption fees were waived on all of the shelter’s black dogs for Black Friday.

Every single one of them was adopted, according to the society’s Facebook page:

“WOW! We are all out of Black Dogs … EVERY DOG found a new home today! So far 55 pets have been adopted including 26 dogs, 28 cats, and 1 gerbil. Wahoo!”

As we reported last week, the Kansas Humane Society on Black Friday waived fees on all black dogs — often passed over in shelters — and discounted fees for other dogs by 25 percent.

On hand for the adoption event was Madison Bell, a seventh-grader at Mayberry Middle School, who recently launched the Black Dog Club after noticing while volunteering that black dogs seemed to linger in the shelter longer.

The club’s t-shirt will continue to be available this week. You can find out more here.

(Photo: from Kansas Humane Society’s Facebook page)

The owners of Quentin the pug say he is an accomplished sleeper, devoting about 20 hours a day to the cause.

There is no situation he can’t fall asleep in — including, as shown here, while sitting up.

You can see more of him at www.quentinthepug.com

To see more sleeping dogs, click here, then click on a headline for a video.