Sunday, October 21, 2007

When Pigs Fly!

Yesterday, Paul Emerson, our friend and volunteer, came out to visit, and we started reminiscing about the rescue ranch and I remembered this story.

Years ago, during the Spring, a church group of about twenty young children and a few adults, came out to the rescue ranch, to volunteer their services for a couple of hours. Because, the children were so young, we decided to let them play with our pigs and clean their pen.

The kids fell in love with our pigs, and were disappointed when their work was completed, and it was time for them to leave our ranch.

While the parents were busily loading up the kids into their cars, one cute, little, seven-year old girl, pointed over to our pig pen and screamed, “Look at that pig! What is he doing?”

We all looked and gasped at what we saw! The children were laughing and screaming with delight, and the parents were mortified!

Apparently after we had left the pig pen, a three hundred pound, black and white-spotted, wild hog, had wandered up to the pig pen because Alice, one of our sows, was in heat. The wild hog was outside the pig pen, standing on his hind legs, leaning into the fence, and trying to make love to Alice! He was wildly, humping away, but to no avail—Alice wasn’t interested!

Tony took off, to run the lovesick hog off, and thinking fast, I said, “Oh, he’s just dancing. Pigs love to dance.” (Yeah right, when pigs fly—I thought to myself.)

With children laughing hysterically—the parents quickly thanked me, and then drove away as fast as they could!

That wild hog made several more visits to our pig pen during that week, and he did do a lot of dancing, so to speak. Fortunately, Alice didn’t get pregnant, and unfortunately, that church group has never returned.

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