# Pig rescues goat. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381 "2012-09-21T11:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/1 "2012-09-21T11:29:17Z")
I had no idea that pigs could swim. So cool. > **[Video | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT](https://www.canberratimes.com.au/video/?&exc_from=strap)** > > Stay updated on the latest news and events in Canberra with our collection of videos on Canberra Times. Tune in now. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/2 "2012-09-21T11:35:43Z")
It is definitely not what you’d expect.😉 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/3 "2012-09-21T11:48:11Z")
Does [Stephan Pastis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine_%28comic_strip%29#Pig) know about this? ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/4 "2012-09-21T11:57:33Z")
Where is rat? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/5 "2012-09-21T12:25:49Z")
Finally, the bacon returns the favor and does the saving! ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/6 "2012-09-21T12:52:21Z")
Our local news portrayed this as a rescue. I’m inclined to think it fell out like this. (goat in peril) pig: “Hey, water, that looks like fun!” (swims over) goat: “If it’s not bad enough I can’t swim, now I’m being menaced by a pig!” (increased panic thrashing gets him close to edge to get out) ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/7 "2012-09-21T19:15:55Z")
That’s what I thought as well. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/8 "2012-09-22T01:12:23Z")
I like the rescue version better. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/9 "2012-09-22T02:09:02Z")
That video seemed way too fast. I can’t believe the pig swims direct to the goat either. It looks like a heavy edit to me. Cutting out footage of the pig aimlessly swimming around. Then they speed up the speed maybe 1.25 times? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/10 "2012-09-22T04:24:09Z")
**t e r r i f i c** ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/11 "2012-09-22T05:07:08Z")
That’s S O M E P I G! I once saw a herd of horses rescue a pot-bellied pig. The pig was a stray that would hang out at my old boarding barn’s pastures. One day a pack of dogs came through the fence and were chasing down the pig. I believe they would’ve killed Porkchop if they could catch him. The herd of horses split into two groups. One herded the pig towards a big round bale of hay and stood around him, facing outward. The horses started chasing the dogs and ran them out of the pasture. StG ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/12 "2012-09-22T06:34:26Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I had no idea that pigs could swim. So cool. > > [Watch Latest Videos on Canberra Times | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT](http://media.canberratimes.com.au/selections/heroic-pig-rescues-goat-at-us-petting-zoo-3654613.html?&exc_from=strap) Oh, they can definitely swim…[and you can swim with them](http://www.bahamas.co.uk/things-to-do/bahamas-water-activities/swimming-with-pigs)! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/13 "2012-09-22T08:09:55Z")
I can’t even tell you how much I like this rescue/video. Pigs are really smart. Re _Animal Farm._ Animals feel compassion, too. Just because they can’t speak English doesn’t mean they can’t relate. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/14 "2012-09-22T08:23:35Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > **Pig rescues goat.** Prescient username / post combination. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/15 "2012-09-23T00:33:15Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I had no idea that pigs could swim. Why not, they can [fly](http://www.adirondackballoonfest.org/special-shapes.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/16 "2013-02-27T07:21:47Z")
It was a staged video. _But the video was thoroughly staged. It was created for a new Comedy Central series, “Nathan for You,” with the help of some 20 crew members, including animal trainers, scuba divers and humane officers, and required the fabrication of a plastic track to guide the pig to the goat (which was never in jeopardy)._ _But to the creators of the video — which has since been viewed more than seven million times — the news reports are the unexpected if felicitous results of a social experiment in which they say they were not aspiring to this level of deceit._ [Link.](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/arts/television/pig-rescues-goat-and-the-video-is-really-cute-but-totally-faked.html?src=dayp&_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/17 "2013-02-27T22:19:51Z")
She just did it to make Kermit jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/18 "2013-02-28T01:12:25Z")
This recent revelation makes the username/post combination even more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/19 "2013-02-28T07:19:42Z")
I knew David Hasselhoff had let himself go but calling him a pig is a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381/20 "2013-02-28T13:03:56Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > This recent revelation makes the username/post combination even more interesting. I keep trying to tell you guys. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pig-rescues-goat/635381.md?page=2)