Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Pig Gets In Trouble

Poor Pig. He didn't mean any harm. After all, the man next door was feeding the horse, and threw some corn on the ground for Pig. Any self-respecting pig would have done the same thing -- eat up the corn and then return the next day for more! Unfortunately, this time, the man's granddaughter and little yippy dog ran up, and Pig was scared. He simply cannot ABIDE barking dogs! It just, well, it brings out the wild boar in him, and (as the man's wife told us later) Pig chased the dog acting as if he would bite him (he would have), and the granddaughter (about age 6) was terrified. Why do folks give food to animals if they don't want them coming around again? Oh well. Now Pig has to stay in his pen unless we can be out with him to keep him away from the neighbor's property. I guess a fence is in our future, since, as Robert Frost tells us, they make good neighbors. We're thinking of an electric fence, since that is much cheaper than completing the existing chain link fence. I wonder if an electric fence would stop a pig who just wants some more corn.....?