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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: devonlady on July 15, 2016, 05:15:20 pm
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Now, Babe is renowned in the neighbourhood for hoicking gates off, making holes in hedges and going for a short gadabout. Her dear old crubeens mean she can't venture far (like going for a walk in high heels!) and someone always 'phones me with a "pig alert".
However she has been missing since yesterday am and I've searched the lanes and tracks for miles and not a sign of her. I'm so worried that someone has shut her in somewhere without water or that she's been stolen for sausages.
I've even 'phoned the dog warden and the local police. The RSPCA were, as usual, next to useless!
What else can I do?
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Check where the boars are in the area - my gut feeling is that she's in season and off trying to find a man ;)
Signs/phone calls to local vets and agristores to put the word out that she's gone walkabout and some posters / signs around your land. Hopefully hunger will get the better of her and she'll be home for tea :fc:
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:fc: she returns, or someone sees her and calls you :hug:
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Get a post out on Facebook.
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So worrying. I hope she is home soon.
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I am so sorry to hear this Devonlady, I hope you find her soon!
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Has she turned up yet ?
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If she turns up you need to drill a hole in the hinge and pop in a pin to stop her lifting the gate off...
Surely they aren't the easiest animals to steal :o to big with o handles!
Hope she turns up :fc:
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The third day now and not a sign of her. My grandson and I have been searching the hedgerows "just in case" but nothing. I have an awful feeling that she is no longer in this world but I wish I knew!
HH she went regularly down the fields to my neighbour to snog his Large White boar through the bars of his enclosure but always wandered back again.
My son will put her on fb.but I don't think anything will come of it.
Something feels very final.
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:( :hug: :hug: :hug:
What breed/age is she? I can send Reiki if you want?
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just shared on twitter, really hope you find her soon!
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:( :hug: :hug: :hug:
What breed/age is she? I can send Reiki if you want?
HH, she is a Kunekune, 8 years old. She has never strayed more than a quarter of a mile. My son, Raven has a real sense of knowing where animals are, he has found 2 dogs and a cat who had somehow shut herself into a suitcase under a spare room bed!! but he can't find her.
HH if you can help, even if it's bad news I would be so thankful.
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I do hope you find her :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc:
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Facebook? I've posted a public message but a photo would be helpful
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Reall feel for you. Whatever the outcome, you want to know.
One if my Kune Kune sows is a nightmare. Scales the drystone wall and off see goes. Turned up in the 20 acre field bext door. Must havevgone under the locked gate, . And I had to get her back under itvand along the track.
Then twice she went up the track, across the lane, up a drive to the cinverted barn and climbed the steps to the front door . The owners brought her back.
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Facebook? I've posted a public message but a photo would be helpful
I'll get Raven to post one, Annie.
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I am so sorry to hear this [member=89885]devonlady[/member] I hope you find her soon!
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She's found!!! Alive and well the sh#te and causing mayhem in someone's garden so I was told (so much for my powers of vision!)
Facing the owner was not something I was looking forward to so I was glad to find her in the driveway of this very grand, very posh house having a quiet snooze under some trees and nipped her around the corner sharpish.
I'm sorry to say that, if caught, I was going to give a false name (Cynthia Rowbottom) and say her owner was ill and I was collecting her on their behalf. It was very hot and I had a mile to walk her( which took me an hour and forty minutes!) though I will call in and ask about any damage, she's not normally a havoc-causing pig but may have got into their veg garden.
But, where has she been all this time? One thing she was very nervous, almost frightened. This a pig who has never known a minute's harshness and responds to a slap on the bum with "I'll go when I'm ready" squealed and took off at a run at a tap with a carrier bag of apples!
Thank you all for you concern. It buoyed me up.
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That is such good news! I am glad she is home and well, perhaps her adventure this time will put her off any more escapes!
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Brilliant news! :relief: I'm so pleased :)
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This is indeed fantastic news, well done for finding her! Love the false name by the way..... :roflanim:
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Yipee....
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Now you really DO have to post a picture of her - she may try it again and we want to know who we're looking for ! :roflanim:
I'm so glad she's back home, but how did you find out?
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So pleased that she's home :)
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A neighbour tipped me off, how he knew I don't know! She was very hungry and desperate for her wallow, we are going all out tomorrow to pig proof a field for her.
If this doesn't work I'm afraid she will be PTS.She is too much of a worry, we are only a rough track away from a main road and though she doesn't like the sound of car engines if she wandered down there and no cars coming she might wander into the road and suddenly meet cars coming each way. It doesn't bear thinking about!!
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How do you pig proof it - electric fencing maybe?
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Now you really DO have to post a picture of her - she may try it again and we want to know who we're looking for ! :roflanim:
I'm so glad she's back home, but how did you find out?
Yes how did you find out , and must have a picture ( ready for the next "wanted" poster.
Good news and such a relief
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Phew :thumbsup:
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:so pleased you found her and hooe you can stop her travels
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So glad she's home. Hope the owner of the house wasn't too angry.
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Wonder if she found a boyfriend on her travels? :eyelashes:
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Well, had another message that Babe was, my worst fear and despite all our efforts, was on the main Ashburton road. I have had to make the very painful decision to have her PTS. Heaven rest her.
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:hug: :hug: :hug:
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so sorry to hear this [member=89885]devonlady[/member] :hug:
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Oh, so very sorry. I woory constantly about my pig getting on the road.
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:bouquet: :hug:
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I thought she was home. Sorry to hear that after all of this the outcome was not good.
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She was safely home, Bionic, but somehow got out again. I think she was looking for company and sheep and geese didn't satisfy this need. The problem is I would have had to get a young pig to keep her company, she would get very old and die and I would have the same problem on and on until I dropped dead from aggravation!
So, dearly as I loved her I couldn't see another way.
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I'm so sorry. What on earth would have kept her in! She was obviously very determined. Do pigs go over the rainbow bridge? If they do she'll have plenty of company.
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She was safely home, Bionic, but somehow got out again. I think she was looking for company and sheep and geese didn't satisfy this need. The problem is I would have had to get a young pig to keep her company, she would get very old and die and I would have the same problem on and on until I dropped dead from aggravation!
So, dearly as I loved her I couldn't see another way.
Totally off topic here but a couple of months ago I bought 2 guinea pigs. They shouldn't be kept alone so you need at least 2. In Switzerland they have a law saying you must keep more than one but if you only have 2 and 1 dies you get 'lent' another one until your original one dies. Otherwise you are caught in the trap that you have mentioned where you need to buy another one and so it continues......
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That's a great idea.