The Three Little Pigs

Once upon a time there was a pig called Whitney, she was moved to a new home with her sister Wrinkles.  The two sisters were very frightened, they didn't know these new people and they wanted to be back in their own home with their usual humans.  So they escaped and ran away....they managed to run about a kilometre away from their new home, but then the track ran out and they didn't know which way to go.  

They decided to build their home near the end of the track, they made it from bracken.  For the first 3-4 weeks they enjoyed their freedom, the sun was shining, there was lots to eat, they could wallow in the mud pools that collected at the side of the track.  Then Wrinkles lost her sister, she couldn't find her anywhere, she got very lonely. The humans kept going past on the track in their car, often they would throw her food; cakes and pig nuts.  After a week or two of being on her own Wrinkles decided that the new humans weren't so bad, they seemed quite kind, she started following them down the track when they threw food for her.  She couldn't understand why she was always so hungry, no matter how much she ate.  One day she followed the human called Kim halfway down the track and into a small area with stone walls, Kim poured a bucket of pig nuts onto the floor...she was too hungry, it was too tempting.  Before Wrinkles knew what was happening Kim had closed the big wooden gate on her and she was trapped. Wrinkles was quite relieved, she was tired of running away from the human's pet dogs, she was hungry all the time and lonely without Whitney.  Over the next few weeks Wrinkles got very settled in her new home. Kim brought her food and water at least twice a day, she had a paddling pool to wallow in.

A couple of weeks later Whitney found her way back to their bracken home near the top of the track, she had disappeared because she had to find somewhere safe to have her piglets, somewhere the human's pet dogs wouldn't bother her.  Whitney arrived back with her three little piglets, but Wrinkles was nowhere to be seen.  For weeks the family stayed around the top of the track hoping that Wrinkles would return. Whitney wanted to search for her sister but she knew the little piglets weren't strong enough, so she waited.  Eventually as the piglets grew stronger they started to venture down the track and they found Wrinkles trapped in a pen half way down the track.  A couple of weeks after Whitney started visiting her sister in the pen, she arrived to find that she was now an aunty to seven little piglets. Every day Whitney and her family would visit, Wrinkles told them that the new people were ok, that they looked after her well.  Kim started leaving food for Wrinkles and the three little pigs, but still they were a bit scared of her and they hated it when the dogs discovered them, they chased them all the way back to the top of the track.  

One day Kim heard the dogs barking near the pen, she shouted the dogs back to the house because she guessed they were bothering Whitney and the piglets. Once the dogs were tied up she went off to take the pigs their food. As Kim rounded the corner and the pen came into view she could see Whitney waiting for her dinner, but then she spotted Wrinkles outside the pen, she nearly dropped the buckets with shock, how did she get out?  Kims initial reaction was that the two of them plus the three little pigs would run off, the gate to the pen was wide open and the seven tiny piglets were wiggling around just inside the gate, trying to find their mum. Kim walked slowly into the pen with the buckets of food and waited for what seemed like ages, hoping that Wrinkles wouldn't run off and leave her babies. Slowly she tipped the buckets of food onto the floor in the middle of the pen, Wrinkles made up her mind and dashed back into the pen followed quickly by Whitney. Kim slowly moved to the gate and closed it, the two sisters were now in the pen with Wrinkles seven piglets, but what about the three little pigs?

Kim knew they had hidden in the bracken opposite the pen, she also knew that there was no way she would be able to catch them, what would happen now, would Whitney try to escape from the pen to be with her piglets?  Kim had noticed that Whitney had a bite mark on her thigh and guessed that one of the dogs had done this, no wonder the poor pig had surrendered and decided to join her sister, but it was a shock that she had left her piglets behind.  Kim assumed that Wrinkles had stormed the gate of the pen to help her sister when she was being attacked by the dogs.

Kim didn't sleep much that night, worried about the dogs chasing the three little pigs, worried about how they would survive, wondering how she could reunite them with their mum.  The next morning she went up to the pen expecting the gate to be broken and the pigs gone, and what a surprise, all twelve of the pigs were in the pen, the three little pigs had managed to squeeze through a gap in the chicken wire and then through the pig mesh and were safe and sound and happily reunited with their mum, aunty and cousins.

Whitney looking extremely skinny but reunited with her piglets, nephews and nieces

Update; I am very pleased to say that Whitney has put on weight since being in the pen and looks much healthier, latest picture below, she is the pig on the right.