Fella last hit the headlines as an mascot for animal rights when he was saved from a sausage farm three years ago Wildboar cross Fella gained 14,000 Facebook followers when he was rescued by Emily Keates, of Soham, from an Essex sausage farm three years ago. Last month vets at the University of Cambridge’s Veterinary School discovered tumours all over his abdomen and biopsy results confirmed the worst, he has terminal cancer.