Pigs on the Loose in Stokesdale, NC…OINK OINK!
STOKESDALE — Things have gone hog wild at Stokesdale Elementary School this week.
The students have been well-behaved it’s the pigs that have caused problems.
Five pigs have been snorting around the school campus this week, forcing teachers to keep students indoors and adding to the to-do list of principal Amy Koonce.
“When I was learning to be a principal, they didn’t teach me … what to do with pigs, so this is a new one for me,” Koonce said.
The pigs which stand about knee-high and are believed to weigh about 80 pounds each showed up Monday afternoon. They grazed around the school’s playground and mobile classrooms.
They reappeared Tuesday morning. That prompted a call to Guilford County Animal Control.
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Two animal control officers spent an hour Tuesday morning using a bowl of corn and dry cat food to try to capture the animals an attempt to trick the pigs into thinking they were about to get lunch.
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The roundup ended after the pigs took off into a woods behind the school.
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