One of the joys of life on the open road is that you learn to expect – and enjoy – the unexpected.
You can bet your bottom dollar, for example, that adopting a pet pig was the last thing on grey nomad Jill Taylor’s mind as she set up camp at Mulgrave River in north Queensland.
The Cairns Post reports that Jill and her kelpie-cross pet, Leah, were sitting outside their caravan last Sunday when a tiny porker known as “Pig” and its sibling wandered into their camp.
Incredibly, the dog and the pig struck up an immediate, and highly unlikely, friendship.
Dressed in a purple collar, Pig now competes with Leah to fetch frisbees and sticks when she is not curled up in the camper at night time.
“The dog should be killing the pigs but they seem to have fallen in love with each other – Leah especially loves Pig,” Jill told the Cairns Post. “They cuddle up with each other and follow each other around – they are the best of friends.
Jill believes the piglets’ own mother may have been killed by one of the many hunting dogs in Mulgrave and she wants to find a new home for the animals before she continues her travels.
“Pig is so cute and so intelligent and very easily trained … it only took a few hours before she was playing frisbee with us,” Jill said. “If I had a property up here I would have her because I would hate to see her slaughtered by a dog. “But I can’t keep her in the camper, there will be no room when they grow.”
Wow! A feral pig as a camping companion! That does just about take the biscuit.
