Trotters' independence

Anybody selling you a ‘micro pig’ is a con artist. Pigs are not household pets and anybody who tries this out will live to regret it.

- Dom Joly

Big pig news. Wilbur has left the building. Not as in he’s dead, but he has left the Cotswolds and moved up North to a wonderful pig sanctuary called (rather unnervingly) Pigs Inn Heaven.

This was a big decision for us to make but he had become more and more aggressive and was clearly unhappy with our bringing in a friend to keep him company. The friend, Sir Francis Bacon, is the best natured pig I’ve ever met (although very chatty) and we thought that Wilbur and he would get on brilliantly. I’d forgotten just what a grumpy pig Wilbur was and he expresses zero interest in having a new friend except for killing our cockerel and crunching on the poor thing’s skull while staring at a terrified Sir Francis.