A doting owner who was scammed into buying a fake teacup pig chose to keep it even after it had ballooned in size.

Pornpimol Taivichit, 48, believed she bought a sweet miniature pig named Boonmee three years ago. She raised it along with her other pets in Ang Thong, central Thailand.

However, she found she was scammed when her supposed teacup pig had grown up to snorting 220lbs beast.

Footage from last Thursday (June 26) shows the big, fat, pig playing with the other pets in their owner's house.

The animal lover said even by the time she realised that her teacup piggy is just a regular pig, she did not have any intention to cast her away.

She said: "I bought this pig when she was just a cute baby piglet. I had bought her because I wanted to raise a teacup pig.

"However, she has never stopped growing but since I had already loved her, I decided to keep her."