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Little Oscar the pig home safely after coordinated rescue

There's bliss in Bliss; felicity in The Flatwoods. The Prodigal Pig is home! After Miss Victoria found the little fellow and was joined by J.M. Shelley, and Craig Feese they had almost instant response from Adair County Animal Warden Jimmy Harmon, who was shopping at the huge nearby center in Greater Bliss. Little Oscar is now happily home with the Feese children, who had missed him terribly. Miss Victoria, who rose from her sickbed to look for the pig Saturday, is relieved to have found Oscar before neighborhood's coyotes did; and rejoices that he didn't fall prey to the Ogre, Bud Mullins, said to occupy a sinkhole in her back field
CM hopefully awaits a proper portrait of Oscar, now permanently enshrined as an authenitic Adair County animal hero.

by Victoria Pike

Around noon today I found Oscar, the little pig belonging to Craig and Stephanie Feeses's children, resting in the the corner between our fence and JM Shelley's horse lot.

He was hemmed in by an electric fence in the corner, whose purpose is to keep the calves from bunching up at the end of the fence.

I called Craig and JM to come quick. JM summoned help from Adair County Animal Warden Jimmy Harmon who was at wallyworld.

In short order, they scooped him up in a net Mr. Harmon uses to catch small animals without hurting them. Then they loaded him for a quick ride home to the Feese children who had been missing Oscar terribly.

The little Feeses also have two more little lady pigs at home.

Sorry, no pictures. Batteries were dead. Just glad little Oscar isn't going to be spending the night in the sinkhole with Bud Mullins or in the belly of one of our local coyotes.

He was found only a few hundred feet from Ole Bud's home in the backfield. --Victoria Pike




This story was posted on 2012-01-02 05:51:35
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Miss Victoria, aka political leader Vicky Pike



2012-01-02 - Jaycees Pavillion, 415 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Miss Victoria, the first to spot Oscar, the prodigal little pet big, is also a highly regarded Democratic political leader - sometimes considered a rising Adair County version of Jefferson County's longtime Democratic party power Miz Lennie McLaughlin - as well as CEO of the Browning/Pike farms in Greater Bliss. Above Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear posed with her at a big multi-county fundraiser she coordinated for his benefit in October 2011.

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