This little piggy goes to town, happily trotting alongside human friend Wendy. Hiccup the Piglet is a new babe in the city: navigating Ballarat streets, blogging her adventures in between playing with her farm siblings. Oh yeah, and Hiccup has a penchant for eating apple sauce. Promise, we’re not telling you any porky pies in this pig’s tale….
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WHEN Hiccup steps out on the town she totally ‘squeals’ the spotlight.
Happily trotting alongside her human friend Wendy, Hiccup struts Ballarat streets often shocking those bustling past – a piglet vying to become more worldly than Babe (Pig int he City).
This little piggy has an attitude to rival Miss Piggy and potential star snout power to match.
She is this region’s answer to Disney's Dog with a Blog, posting her adventures on her own Facebook page.
“Hiccup’s a bit of a character and a lot of people are really interested in her videos. We take her to town and she goes for walks,” owner and human friend Wendy Gauntlett said. “We just thought we’d have somewhere people could look up and see what she was up to and follow her little adventures in this world.”
Hiccup is not quite up to being a service pig just yet, Wendy quips, so is left to window-shop on her jaunts. But she enjoys trotting with her canine siblings to navigate Ballarat streets and meeting people.
“People don’t often realise. They just look and think black-and-white little dog but it’s not until they get really close they suddenly realise it’s not a dog,” Wendy said. “Reactions vary from absolute surprise, to excitement of seeing a pig in the city, and some people are absolutely mortified that I’m walking a little piglet on a collar and lead designed for a dog.”
Hiccup’s bio reads that she “made a lucky escape from the freezer” to move into her Burrumbeet home with Wendy, Camilla and a whole band of farm friends. Unravelling her curly tale reveals a net was needed to first catch this pig-headed cutie.
In her pig digs, Hiccup must share Wendy and her partner Camilla Sleeth’s attention with Grace (Wendy’s service dog and an agility superstar), sweet Melody (who Hiccup likes to sleep on), three curious goats (Alice, Charmaine and Itsy), clucky chooks Henrietta and Penelope, and beautiful Bessie the Jersey cow.
Hiccup is already trying to throw her weight around – diva-like demands include being fed exactly to the minute on her meal-time – so Wendy and Camilla are working hard to train Hiccup, in agility and manners, before this two-month-old reaches her full size potential, 200 kilograms.
When Hiccup grows up, she hopes to be a gardener. Her constant rooting for food is a key skill in digging up areas for new vegetable patches.
Wendy said Hiccup really did ‘eat like a pig’ when she had the chance and was definitely not fussy.
But this little chop’s favourite dish was apple sauce.
You can follow Hiccup’s adventures on her Facebook page, Hiccup – A hell of a pig.
Please note: Hiccup is not yet on Instaham.