Canadian Piglet Jumps from Slaughterhouse Truck to New Life

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/canadian-piglet-jumps-from-slaughterhouse-truck-to-new-life.html

by Megan Drake November 12, 2013 9:30 pm

Imagine you are a tiny piglet, only one month old. You are torn away from your mother and scrunched into a dirty truck full of other little piglets, wiggling and stepping on top of each other. You are frightened because you have no clue what is happening to you. What would you do?

Yoda’s Story

One little piggy riding down a highway in Canada decided to make a break for life. He found a small opening and jumped off a moving truck that was bound for a finishing facility. Ultimate goal: he was to be fattened up for slaughter. The piglet didn’t understand he landed on a highway full of potentially dangerous traffic.



“The people who were following that trailer saw the piglet sneak through a hole and fall off the trailer,” said Sûreté du Québec spokeswoman, Joyce Kemp, as reported by CBS News Montreal. They called police who eventually found the little guy walking along the highway. He had some bruises and abrasions on his snout from where he managed to push his way out of the truck. Otherwise, he made the great escape in good health.


Yoda burrows in the straw at his new forever home

Kemp reports police contacted animal control officers who eventually found a permanent place for this little piggy at Wishing Well Animal Sanctuary just north of Toronto. Brenda Bronfman, Wishing Well founder, named him Yoda. “He just loves to crawl into people’s laps and be held. He’s a little angel,” said Bronfman. “There is always somebody on the farm, and he will just be loved for the rest of his natural life.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/canadian-piglet-jumps-from-slaughterhouse-truck-to-new-life.html#ixzz2kWdrZeKr


FULL story at link.

[In_The_Wind]

1. That's a very cute pig.

[Berlum]

2. Aha

[xchrom]

3. awesome

[dipsydoodle]

4. Respect

so no bacon rolls today.

Hopefully the piglet can retire to a life of "just watchin' the game , havin' a Bud"

[Demeter]

5. I'm a traditionalist

"Babe" or "Wilbur" would have been better choices of names....

[MadrasT]

6. Oh yay!!

Go, piglet, go!

[malaise]

7. Thsi little piggy did not go to market

Sweet story - thanks Omaha Steve

[BlueJazz]

11. LOL! Good One.

[Roy Rolling]

8. One happy piglet

[myrna minx]

9. Awww.

[tavernier]

10. Aw, nice story and start to the day

Makes me feel kind of badly about that bacon I had for breakfast.

[ReRe]

12. I would definitely have named him "Wilbur"...

... I watched Charlotte's Web a couple Sundays ago. Of course, I had seen it before, but nothing else was on all those channels we now have access to. Yip, that's Wilbur all over again. Glad Yoda successfully jumped ship and found some nice humans.

[stonecutter357]

13. these little bastards have made me take lipitor every day

and yes i am blaming the victim

[Omaha Steve]

14. Nobody thought of Arnold Ziffel???

http://www.arnoldziffel.com/

[dionysus]

15. what a cute piggeh.

[truebrit71]

16. Okay...I'm taking a risk here but here goes...

...Look...I don't believe in reincarnation in any way shape or form, but this little piggy seems to REALLY not want to become bacon...as well as the other traits he displays makes me shake my head and wonder more than a little about just how much animals "know" about their place in the pecking order...

Either way...I'm happy for the little fella...and as another poster said in this thread makes me feel more than a little guilty about the bacon I had for breakfast this morning..

[freshwest]

17. K&R

[Omaha Steve]

18. (Maxwell) GEICO-Piggy

Stuffed toy for sale: http://www.bdasites.com/Geico/Product/GEIC100420-00?cat=GEIGIFT