roxynoodle
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- Dec 1, 2011
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Ok, I said in Mayden's thread last night that once I was awake I would tell about the time my Vietnamese pot belly pig, Porkchop, escaped. He lived in the shed in my backyard and shared the same fenced area as my dogs used. Well, I was trying to find new high speed internet service and called a local company. They told me on the phone that I probably was outside the service area, so I thought that was that. Well, apparently someone came to my house anyway to do a site survey to see if they could get me coverage. Since I didn't know anyone was going to be coming, I didn't warn them not to leave the back gate open, or tell them about the pig. And I was at work.
When I got home from work, there was the gate wide open and Porkchop was gone. One neighbor had said they had seen him in my front yard munching flowers, but they didn't know he wasn't supposed to be there:54: Too bad, or he could have been caught right away!
I looked everywhere but knew he was probably in one of the corn fields. When corn is 6 feet tall, finding your way around a field isn't easy. However, I did find him in a field after about 3 days. I came across what looked like a bed made of corn stalks and said, a ha! A few minutes later I found him. Like a good porker, he followed me back, but once we got to the road he freaked. I had no idea a pig could run that fast! He was much faster than I was! Dust was flying out behind him like rocket smoke. And I couldn't find him again :-(
A couple days later he went to a neighbor's to eat their flowers. The wife saw him and thought he was a wild boar and called the sheriff. When I got home from work I found out they had been chasing him all over the fields in a squad car! Another neighbor who knew it was actually my pet and not a wild boar was standing over him when I got home. He was almost dead from exhaustion and fear. He couldn't even get up. We had to lift him into a horse trailer, bring him back and lift him out again.
He did thankfully recover fully, but that is the tale of the great escape.
When I got home from work, there was the gate wide open and Porkchop was gone. One neighbor had said they had seen him in my front yard munching flowers, but they didn't know he wasn't supposed to be there:54: Too bad, or he could have been caught right away!
I looked everywhere but knew he was probably in one of the corn fields. When corn is 6 feet tall, finding your way around a field isn't easy. However, I did find him in a field after about 3 days. I came across what looked like a bed made of corn stalks and said, a ha! A few minutes later I found him. Like a good porker, he followed me back, but once we got to the road he freaked. I had no idea a pig could run that fast! He was much faster than I was! Dust was flying out behind him like rocket smoke. And I couldn't find him again :-(
A couple days later he went to a neighbor's to eat their flowers. The wife saw him and thought he was a wild boar and called the sheriff. When I got home from work I found out they had been chasing him all over the fields in a squad car! Another neighbor who knew it was actually my pet and not a wild boar was standing over him when I got home. He was almost dead from exhaustion and fear. He couldn't even get up. We had to lift him into a horse trailer, bring him back and lift him out again.
He did thankfully recover fully, but that is the tale of the great escape.
of all the different types of fields he could have picked it would be corn!
