Wee piggy returns home

Tauranga Waldorf School’s new male saddleback piglet. Supplied Photo.

UPDATED 10.53AM: The litle piggy who wondered off from a Welcome Bay school is now home.

The Tauranga Waldorf School contacted SunLive earlier this week after the after the piglet went missing.

Tauranga Waldorf School administrator Cathy Donnelly says the children were disappointed when they heard the news of the missing piglet.

However, the piglet returned to the school overnight, returning a smile to the children of the school in the process.

EARLIER:

The children of Tauranga Waldorf School need your help to track down their wee little piglet, who's done a runner.

The male saddleback piglet had only just arrived at the Welcome Bay school over the Waitangi long weekend, but had somehow managed to escape his enclosure on Monday afternoon.

'We've got lots of disappointed children who are anxious to get this wee fella back home,” says Tauranga Waldorf School administrator Cathy Donnelly.

'We're getting lots of spottings of the piglet around Welcome Bay, he's been seen in Ballintoy Park and Utopia Heights, and on Wednesday we had someone call saying they'd seen him on Estates Terrace.”

The small rural school with a roll of 200 pupils and 17 kindergarten children runs a little farm on its grounds which has cows, chickens, and usually, two pigs.

Cathy says the older generation of pigs on their farm recently produced a piglet, so the school brought in another – the wee little fella who's done a runner – so they could breed the two.

'I don't know exactly how old he is, but it looks like he's not used to human contact. Our other piglet loves the children and will roll over and happily be scratched. But this one hasn't had time to build that relationship with us yet.”

Cathy says the small piglet is pretty fast so if you do manage to catch him then that's brilliant. But if you can't, could you please report any sightings of the piglet to the school.

'He's obviously doing a little tiki-tour of the area, but we just can't seem to nab him.

'For his great escape efforts we've taken to calling him the ‘Great Hamdini'.”

If you spot Tauranga Waldorf School's saddleback piglet please call 544-2452 or 027-513-3304.

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2 comments

Good one

Posted on 09-02-2017 13:47 | By overit

Hope he's safe at night because now he is at risk from 'bad people' who know where he is.


golly gosh

Posted on 09-02-2017 20:56 | By old trucker

I grew up on a farm with 200 odd pigs,THEY get very stressed if they cannot see out of their pen,plus that roofing iron for a fence gets very hot,and they cannot stand direct heat and need a shelter out of the sun,hope he will be ok,also if he had a mate to calm him would be better,better still send him back with his family,he loooks to tiny to be on his own,my exp,. for what its worth,Thankyou Sunlive No1 for News,10-4 out.


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