A 400-pound pig on the loose on the school grounds of Ecole des Voyageurs on 216 Street in Walnut Grove caused quite a stir on Monday during the lunch hour.
“Porkchop” meandered onto school property during the lunchtime recess, having escaped from three farms down the road.
The school called a Code Yellow and shuffled all the students inside so they would be safe and police were called in.
“It took RCMP officers as well as animal control two hours to convince Porkchop that it was time for him to go home,” said school administrator Marie Fraser.
And Porkchop has a reputation for being quite pigheaded.
“Porkchop, according to his owner weighs 400 pounds and so. If Porkchop doesn’t want to do something, Porkchop simply doesn’t do it,” said Fraser.
Porkchop’s owners noticed a gate had been left open and their pig was missing. They quickly tracked the pig to the school and helped in saving its bacon by bringing him home safely.
Porkchop wasn’t the only animal to cause a ruckus. Last Thursday, Township firefighters had to put on their best cowboy hats and lassoes to wrangle up a pair of horses that had spooked themselves onto Highway One.
Eventually, they were brought to safety and their owners came with a trailer.
There was also traffic reports of a cow munching on the grass in the median on Highway One, near 232 Street, last week.
