Monday morning dawned in La Herradura with bewildered wild-boar piglets trapped on the bottom of an empty pool within an uninhabited property.

The Guardia Civil were called out (no sniggering please) to organise the rescue of six wild boars; four piglets and two disgruntled adults, unable to get out of the empty pool – would hunters please stop drooling.

The uninhabited chalet, by the way, is in the area above La Herradura known as Pago de Guerra. Anyway, it was only after 24 hours of their being in this predicament that they were finally fished out without anybody getting gored or piglets going astray in somebody’s pantry and let loose into the countryside.

However, the Guardia Civil, who also had the help of the local fire service, didn’t actually managed to rescue them until well into the early hours of today but being softies at heart the Green Meanies kept the tasty piglets… sorry, distressed piglets supplied with food and water.

So how did they manage to get them out? It was the fire personnel, going into full Rambo-mode, that came up with the idea of throwing in some wooden boards to act as a ramp up to the surface.

Then, when wild humans and laidback boars had settled down to each other’s presence, valiant fools got into the pool (rather like entering a Roman arena) secured the two sows, threw the piglets up to the surface and then hauled the anxious sows up the ramp.

A spokesperson, Sr. Martos admitted that it was a difficult operation that required seven people to carry it out. Actually there had been eight rescuers but one had been eaten… just joking!

They had contemplated calling in a veterinary surgeon to use tranquillisers… not sure whether it was for the wild boars or for those elected to enter the pool, but in the end this was not needed.

The fire service were called out recently, by the way, to rescue a shepherd’s goats that had fallen down a barranco, bless their cotton socks – that’s the fire personnel’s not the goat’s.

(News/Noticias: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)