A RUNAWAY pig that clearly took exception to being rescued has finally been reunited with her brother.

Kune kune pigs Millie and George were on their way to the Camp Hillcrest education centre near St Briavels when ‘Houdini’ Millie did her disappearing act.

Corinna Seaton, of Camp Hillcrest, said: “I picked up the brother and sister rescue kune kune pigs and loaded them into a horsebox but when I arrived home, one had disappeared.

“There is no easy way out and everyone was completely gobsmacked.

“We think that the only plausible explanation is that she had ‘piggybacked’ on brother George and leapt out of the moving trailer.

“I retraced my steps but there was no sign of her all.

“I contacted various animal agencies, the council and the police – where she went on the missing pig list.

George had got used to the solitary life when the centre got a phone call – a month later – from Gloucestershire Police of a possible sighting.

“It seems she had been living it large on Lydney Park Estate, gorging on bountiful sweet chestnuts and the gamekeeper’s pheasant food.

“She had become a local celebrity and was nicknamed ‘the white boar’.

“She made friends with the woodmen who she visited for strokes and fuss.

“She couldn’t stay so then it was the ordeal of trying to catch her.

“I got an army of friends and, after visits in the pouring rain and lot of tempting, we managed to catch her.”

Millie was loaded up in the trailer for the journey to St Briavels – but even then she wasn’t going to make it easy.

Corinna said: “As I drove away, thinking ‘job done, I noticed the back door of the trailer moving.

“She had managed to get her snout under the door and lift it off its hinges.

“We ended up having to rachet-strap the trailer just to keep her in.

“We got her back here and she was reunited with George.”

But Millie has clearly got a taste for freedom.

“She has escaped once and was sighted running down the road – but she was back in the morning like nothing had happpend.

“This pig is a serious Houdini but she is now living happily with her brother and she seems to be content for now.”