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Wilbur: Catch Me if You Can 4

October 11th, 2009.

After transferring Wilbur to the vegetable garden the evening before with Brandon, Hal got ready for the big LSU v.s Florida game and Brandon night hunting. Right when the game started, Ann called and told me that a hog has been wandering around the yard and guess what.. it was Wilbur!! He got a habit of rubbing his body to the pen's gate and unfortunately the veggie garden's gate is not meant for a fat pig like Wilbur, so it broke and Wilbur turned loose to the free world! Considering how difficult it was to catch him in the pen, Hal decided to leave him free for the night and would try to catch him the next morning. He was sure that Wilbur will stay around the yard. Wilbur spent the night in a hole he dug right next to his pen. He's so domesticated, this is his home.

In the morning Hal and Brandon took time hunting while setting up strategies to catch Wilbur. While they were hunting at the back pasture, I thought of taking pictures of free Wilbur. But then I got an idea.

I thought I might be able to lure him with some food and lead him back to the pen. Approaching him on foot, I tried oatmeal cookies. He LOVES it. Then raisin bread. He ate the part that has raisin right away but didn't really care about the plain bread. Oatmeal cookies are too much to lure Wilbur, besides Hal LOVES it, so raisin it is!

I grabbed an old package of golden raisin and got to the bike and started approaching Wilbur. He ran away a little, but when I stopped he would come back and I started to throw raisins to him. He apparently couldn't see the raisins on the grass well, so I had to put the raisin on the pedal board on motorcycle and he ate them right next to my foot.

Wilbur eating raisins on pedal board. I made three progressive moves towards the pen on the bike. Every time Wilbur would run but then came back to my foot to get more raisins. When I got very close to the pen's gate, I pour lots of raisin in front of the gate and inside too.

Surely, Wilbur came back and was so busy gulping the raisin he didn't realize the gate was slowly opened and before he knew it he was back in the pen!