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Pig to get new home

By Kennebec Journal Staff June 25, 2008 11:23 AM

WATERVILLE — This little piggy might just live happily ever after.

Four days after being captured on West River Road, the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that has been roaming the city for weeks is going to a new home in Casco.

He will fit right in at Mayberry Hill Preschool, according to Mac Simpson, a Colby College senior whose parents own the school.

“We have, like, 30 kids,” Simpson said Wednesday. “My dad, 10 years ago, started the idea of getting a petting zoo so I built the fences and stuff like that and over the years we’ve had as many as four pot-bellied pigs, sheep, goats, donkeys, we used to have llamas, ducks — we have had a lot of ducks.”

The pig will join another Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named “Little Gordy,” who lives at Mayberry and was orphaned last winter when his parents, Big Gordy and Petunia, died after leaving the shelter and going out into a snowstorm, Simpson said.

“The little one’s all lonely so we figured this one will just keep it warm in the winter and keep it company,” he said.