The Good, The Bad And The Bacon
Yet another pigs gone wild story coming out of Britain today reports on more porcine pounding of people and pets. On the bright side it also has a heroine! A gritty, gutsy granny with an attitude!
A grandmother described yesterday how she fended off three wild boar with a dog lead to prevent them attacking her dachshund.
Rosemarie Hamilton-Meikle, 80, was walking her four-year-old, 14-inch tall pet, Bosun, in woodland on the edge of Dartmoor when the dog darted into the undergrowth.
She followed him and found him lying on the ground surrounded by the boars. She swung the lead at them and the two females fled. But the male boar stood his ground three feet away.
Mrs Hamilton-Meikle had another swing and struck the male boar on the nose, sending him fleeing into the undergrowth at Buckland Monachorum, Devon.
In the past year animal rights activists have illegally released wild boar from two farms in the county. The animals are now thought to be breeding and roaming the area.
That had to be a sight to see. An 80-year old woman flogging the heck out of rampaging bacon. But the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals obviously is in denial:
The incident happened on Monday, the day that another wild boar confronted a man walking his two dogs in the same area.
Jo Barr of the RSPCA said: "Wild boar tend to avoid people. There are only two reported cases of attacks."
Uh, sure, Jo. Right you are. We never hear of any bacon going bad in Britain. We especially never see video of anything like that. And it certainly never happens anywhere else in the world. Nope. Absolutely correct as always.
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