Fiber Follies

The pig awoke from a nice snooze in the neighbours’ indoor ring then promptly set to ‘playing’ with the carriages inside.  Seeing certain doom to the valuable antique carriages, Mr. Neighbour put his dog on a lead and baited the pig with him.  Dog never sussed that he was being so used, to him it was great fun to bound about on a lead, yipping his happy head off, while pig lunged and loped along trying to get this snack-sized barking morsel.  They baited the pig all the way to his own yard.  Seeing nothing in which to enclose the pig (since said pig had pulverised his own  enclosure), they watched him stroll over to water for a drink then beat a hasty retreat.

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Crackerbox Palace rang back.  I learned that this is a rescue for farm animals, so are well equipped to transport a pig if necessary.  They sound a great organisation and I’m happy to know of them.

Pig’s owner rang me back early evening on Saturday.  I told her what had happened and she wasn’t at all pleased-she and her son had just finished a third enclosure round the pig’s yard, so his breaking through all three was monumental.  She was some hours’ drive from home yet, having put in a day of work then getting caught up in city traffic.  I never heard later if the pig was still on the premises when she returned home.

I have received several queries about the pig from FaceBook users, fromt the blog post, and from some forums in which I participate. Almost every query was an offer to take the pig!  There were also some very funny ‘pig experience’ stories shared.