30-pound pig escapes livestock truck, gets "adopted"...by a FARMER

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

DANVILLE, Ind. -- He was most likely heading to a farm to be fattened up before being turned into bacon. But an Indiana pig is living high on the hog -- at least for now. Last week, this little piggy was on his way to market, when he escaped by the hair of his chinny, chin, chin. At least that's what everyone thinks. A truck stop along I-74 in Pittsboro, Ind., was the scene of his daring dash to freedom.

"The trucker had stopped to sleep, and when he left, there was a little piglet running around the parking lot," chief animal control officer Mary Anne Lewis said. No one knows how the pig got out of the livestock truck. But he was on the lam for a while before another trucker found him in the road. Since then, he's been hamming it up at the Hendricks County Animal Shelter. He's been nicknamed "Rueben," and he's been in hog heaven lately -- spoiled with treats and his very own pool.

But he won't call the shelter home for much longer. "A gentleman is going to adopt him," Lewis said. That man is a farmer, which begs the question: What use would a farmer have for a pig? "I don't want to think about it," Lewis said, laughing. As it turns out, Rueben's escape may not have changed his fate after all. "He's a young boy and, yeah, that's unfortunately what will transpire," Lewis said. "That's where he was heading."

[flakey_foont]

1. I often wondered

what became of Arnold Ziffel

[jilln]

2. what kind of shelter

would adopt an animal out to someone who would eat him? that's sick.

[Sequoia]

3. Pigs aren't dumb, they know when they're going to the slaughter house

as do cows and sheep. That pig is sure cute.

[short bus president]

4. hogs intended to be slaughtered for food are not good pets

they grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, and eventually they can't stand up on their own, or their hearts give out trying to pump blood through all that mass. These are animals bred to grow and be slaughtered. If the slaughter doesn't happen, the growth keeps on 'til it kills the animal.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. That sucks.

He was either clever enough to escape, or his captor was too stupid to keep him confined. He should receive amnesty, dammit! :cry: