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Christmas trees a treat for Missouri pigs

The holidays are long-gone and most people have already put up the decorations, but one woman is collecting more to give some pigs a special treat.

Well the holiday season is long gone by now and most of us have taken down the decorations, that is except for one Missouri woman who isn't quite done just yet.

One month after Christmas, and Donna McCall still has a tree.

Actually, she has about a dozen of them.

They're donations from her neighbors, "I had two people bring their trees here."

The rest, she picked up, "I saw one in a yard and I knocked on a door and she was more than happy, yeah, she was more than happy to get rid of it."

In total, 26 trees have reached her front yard but they don't stay for long.

"I've got to climb in for this one," says McCall.

Donna loads around seven at a time back into her truck and hits the road, "We are heading to the Gentle Barn."

Around 40 minutes later, she's here, "Hey rose! Hey girl," tossing trees into a pigpen.

"We are so incredibly grateful to the whole community," says Michelle Robertson the general manager at the Gentle Barn.

She says the pigs love to eat these, "I know they're loving it just from the look on their faces."

And, they love to play in them.

Robertson says, "It's also something they can scratch on. They can roll around. It just makes their life that much better here."

This isn't the first time Donna made good use of holiday leftovers.

After Halloween, she collected around three-hundred pumpkins for the pigs, "They just love, love, to eat whole raw pumpkins!"

Things a person tends to throw away.

McCall says, "The joy I get is seeing something that was previously my neighbor's, has now become recycled into something that's joyful for the animals to share."

And that very same barn is home to six famous cows, dubbed the St. Louis six, who made headlines last spring.

The cattle escaped a slaughterhouse and went on a bit of an adventure through the city.

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