If you are missing six pigs — there’s a family near Markdale who know where they are.
The six pigs showed up at the McEwing property — about three kilometres north of Markdale on Highway 10 — around 2:30 PM Thursday.
And they are still there.
Pam McEwing tells Bayshore Broadcasting News she was at work when her husband called and said the six pigs walked into their backyard.
Her husband called 10 minutes earlier to say the OPP had stopped by asking about the same pigs who were reported wandering on the highway.
Pam McEwing says the pigs have destroyed their backyard as they settled in the sandbox area around their children’s playground.
She says six pigs — who are about 150 pounds each — dug up the lawn with their noses.
But the McEwing’s and their German Shepherd have also worked hard to keep the pigs in their backyard so they don’t run onto the highway and cause a crash.
McEwing called her friends who have two young boys involved in rodeo and they corralled four of the six pigs and put them in a horse trailer overnight.
They gave up the search for the other two pigs around 9 PM after they ran into the bush at the back of the yard.
The look of the backyard may be stressful for McEwing and her husband but she says her four year old daughter and two year old son have loved it.
In fact, her son’s favourite stuffed animal is a pig.
McEwing jokes if the pigs are not claimed soon — they may have a barbeque with a brand new pig roaster that her husband and father in law built last year.