Famous Pig Story

Famous Pig Story!

We said we were never going to get pigs but....we did! We bought  two baby piglets & put them in a pen in the barn. An hour later K3 goes to check them & they had dug their way out & were in front of the barn. No problem...or so we thought. We corner them & one gets away. All our other animals never stray too far from each other, so I turned around expecting her to be standing a short distance away. Not so! This piglet was running as fast as she could, straight into the tall grass in the field behind our house. There was no way I could catch her.

All day & evening we kept looking for her. We had friends over for a bon fire. My friends & I, complete with wineglasses in hand searched the field in the dark with flash lights for the missing piglet. No luck, although C.W. did get a tick as a reward for her effort! One A.M. we spot her next to the barn where the other piglet is. We are shocked she found her way back, but as soon as she saw us she disappeared into the darkness. Guess we'll see if she makes it through the night.

The next morning she is back! We put the other piglet in a cage in the middle of the coral as bait. Doesn't work. We keep spotting her in the meadow beside the house. We try EVERYTHING! Luring her with food, trying to corner her, even trying to outrun her on foot and with the four- wheeler. For having such short legs...she sure could run! Our neighbors watched this show. To this day they still bring this up & how comical we looked. This goes on all day.

This happens to be the day that K3's field hockey team comes over for a barbeque at our house. The two coaches & a few Mom's walk through the woods with me trying to catch that speedy piglet. Mark get's a call to go pick up the beef calves (remember  in the cow blog, I said there was more!). He comes home with the drugged calves & proceeds to castrate the bull causing him to  bellow & thrash inside the trailer. Those girls got quite a lesson in farming between the calves & pig chasing! K2 (the non farmer) is mortified by all this and thankful it was not the day her team was here.

Now it is night....Still no piglet. K3 is upset that we have given up. We explain to her that we have tried everything we could think of. We are exhausted! We go inside. Now it's 10 & I am standing at the sink doing dishes. I hear a pig squealing in the woods. I get Mark out of bed & we go onto the porch & listen to the horrible squealing. Obviously, something got our piglet. K3 wants to go save it. We tell her it is too late. K3 curls up in a ball on the floor, crying. We feel awful. Then to our amazement we see the piglet running down the driveway into the barn. We quickly throw on our boots & run outside. Mark in his boxers and K3 & I in our jammies. The piglet has climbed up a stack of bales. I blind her with the flashlight & Mark grabs her by the leg. WE GOT HER! She is covered in blood (think of the expression bleed like a stuck pig).We clean her up & she has several puncture wounds. Whatever found her in the woods bit her around the neck, but somehow she managed to escape.  We clean her up, apply ointment, and put her back in with the other lonely piglet. Surprisingly,  the next morning we can hardly see her wounds. It was amazing how quickly they healed. Of course, we named her Lucky!