Not since the 2016 United States presidential election have I been filled with so much directionless anxiety: a red-haired pig named after Pauline Hanson has gone missing from his Sunshine Coast farm! THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE NEWS.
So like us.
Pauline (who also answers to Boris, or Pig) failed to return from a Saturday trot on the Cambroon property with the family dogs, and his owners, the Adams family (not that one) are frantic.
Marshall Adams, one of the owners of the hooféd angel, sent us these Snapchat pictures. Tell us you wouldn’t be frantic if this was your beautiful pig that had gone missing!
Helen Adams told the ABC that while the sweet rufous piggo has only been with the family for six months, he’s already become a cherished addition to the farm.
“He loves beer, apples, dog food and he barks like a dog when he’s scared. He has a doona he lays on at my feet and when he sleeps his snout has to touch my foot.“
Sweet snouty snoozer!!!
By all accounts, pigs make great pets, being smart, curious, social animals who happily live indoors or out. That teacup pig thing is almost definitely a myth, though.
Pauline is only 7 months old and already weighs 100kg, and he’ll grow to be more than 300kg in his prime – just like that other famous porcine pal, Esther the Wonder Pig. For now, he loves all the things your average dog-sibling piggle loves: getting pats and scratches, taking mud baths eight times a day, and going for walks. Adams explained:
“He didn’t mind having the harness on. He’d go for a walk no problem at all like a dog, and he’d go and stop when you commanded him to. He was good.“
He was good 🙁
Pauline, please come home. I feel like I have swine flu of the heart.
Source: ABC.
Image: Facebook / Kenilworth Rural Supplies.
