Pigs highway
Interstate 40, the main east-west highway in Oklahoma, was closed for several hours recently when 800 baby pigs spilled on to the road after the truck transporting them overturned, said a Reuters report.
And the pigs, all of which were under a year old, had little idea what to do with their first taste of freedom.
The freeway was closed in both directions as state troopers, firemen and ambulance workers doubled as farm hands in a bid to prevent the pigs from running amok in the Oklahoma City suburbs and return them to a pig farm. Happy menagerie
Animal welfare officers said they recently removed 244 dogs, 16 birds, five cats, two kittens, one rabbit and a chinchilla from a middle-aged couple's home in Lancashire, north-west England.
Fifteen staff from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided the three-bedroomed house after a tip-off and spent two days collecting the pets. The dogs found included shih-tzus, dachshunds, lhasa apsos, bearded collies and a corgi. Among the birds were macaws, Amazon parrots and African grey parrots
Compiled by NIMI KURIAN
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