Runaway pig

[George Wharton]

I've been an East Dulwich dweller for a few years now, thought i'd join up after lurking for a while. I just wondered if any other ED'ers had seen the pig that was running along the side of the road on East Dulwich Grove (the schools end) - i saw it on Saturday, mid afternoon, and wondered where it had come from. Anybody know about this or saw it?

[Jah Lush]

That was no pig, that was my wife...boom boom. (Sorry, old and very sexist joke).

[Annasfield]

Was it Spider Pig?

[George Wharton]

What is Spider Pig?

[Jeremy]

I think it's a Simpsons joke...

[SeanMacGabhann]

but as a previous lurker you will be aware of how quickly things can get silly on here !

[George Wharton]

Indeed it can get out of hand, but it helps pass the time of day.

So to clarify, there was a pig of the non-Spider variety sighted in East Dulwich. I'm sure i wasnt the only one to see this. Maybe this could become the ED equivalent of the Cornish Great White sighting, although a pig might not have quite the same news-worthiness.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Can't say I saw the pig - and to my knowledge there were no fairs/fete's happening nearby where one might possibly expect a pig to escape from.

William Rose is a bit far away (and doesn't handle livestock AFAIK) so I can't help - but I am intrigued

[mockney piers]

Or the beast of Bodmin Moor.

Soon there will be fraught postings about lost cats around the area that owners will fear may have been victim to the Oglander Old Spot!!

[Brendan]

?tis the beast of Sydenham. It hath heard tell of the delights of Lordship Lane and ventured forth to investigate.

[ratty]

The beast of Sydenham made an appearance in my East Dulwich garden once! I kid you not. It was not a pig though but it did nearly eat one of my cats and leapt my 7 foot fence when I chased it with my chef's knife!

[Asset]

was it pot-bellied (or you?).

[George Wharton]

Asset Wrote:

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> was it pot-bellied (or you?).

From what i saw the pig wasn't "low riding". I will ask my wife who was in the car with me if she can remember anything unusual about the pig and report back. Although seeing a pig in itself was rather unusual. I will also ask her about my pot belly.

[Annasfield]

Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does.....

[spadetownboy]

have we got a description

[david_carnell]

Small, pink, cloven-hoofed, porcine quadriped.

Answers to the name of Babe.

Not known to be dangerous to humans unless under-cooked but approach with caution.

Police advise that salt helps with the crackling.

[SeanMacGabhann]

this pig is soooo going to be running around a lounge very soon

[LostThePlot]

ratty Wrote:

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> The beast of Sydenham ... when I chased it

> with my chef's knife!

You have your own chef?...

Sorry, must not be a pedant... ;-)

[spadetownboy]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Small, pink, cloven-hoofed, porcine quadriped.

>

> Answers to the name of Babe.

>

> Not known to be dangerous to humans unless

> under-cooked but approach with caution.

>

> Police advise that salt helps with the crackling.

does it have a curly tail and like wallowing in mud?

[George Wharton]

I asked my wife and like myself thought this was a classic pig, as in pink, not an exotic breed. It probably was a foot off the ground, not massive, not young so it could run rather than waddle. Lost sight of it after we passed the school so who knows where it went. Is it possible to keep a pig as a pet? Could it belong to someone on ED grove? Anyone know a friend of a friend with a pig? My wife thinks i should let my pig fascination go and maybe get on with my life.

[mockney piers]

There may be some Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall types in the area.

Surprised they haven't posted any missing pig posts.

Of course more likely to have been eaten by people than foxes.

[Brendan]

People do keep pigs as pets. The preferred breed is the Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig. One of my friends in South Africa had one. They tend to be favored by ?alternative? arty types who think it will make them interesting to have a pig as a pet. Then they realise that it actually takes an awful lot of training and looking after or else it eats your furniture. Unfortunately many of them end up being sent of to farms* where piggy wiggy becomes baky wacon.

*The pigs not the ?alternative? arty types.

[LostThePlot]

Brendan Wrote:

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> *The pigs not the ?alternative? arty types.

Sadly....

[Jah Lush]

Some decent barbie weather has finally turned up...anyone find this pig I'm gonna spit roast it in honey. All welcome.

[spadetownboy]

kind of makes me homesick all this talk of pigs etc roaming around the place,manys the time when i was living back home,the town centre would be closed off as some farmer ran his cattle,sheep,pigs through the town,mind you now when i think of it the place used to stink to high heaven afterwards,so maybe not so nostalgic after all.