A hunt is on for a wild boar that was spotted roaming around the streets of Gloucester city centre late at night.
Gloucestershire police posted a picture of the boar on Twitter in the early hours of Wednesday with the message:
Have you lost a #pig? One's been roaming Westgate Street in Gloucester tonight. If it's yours, please ring 101 and let us know! Inc. no. 25. pic.twitter.com/VTMbQVU8gL
— Glos Police (@Glos_Police) July 12, 2017
The force’s Faceboook page was quickly deluged with comments from people pointing out that it was no domestic pig but a wild boar.
Hannah Davenport commented: “I can only imagine what would happen if someone went up to that thing. Don’t go near it. They are bigger and more dangerous than pigs. They can disembowel you.”
Another said: “That’s not a pig; that’s a boar. It’s worrying if they are coming into Gloucester.”
One woman said her teenage son had spent an hour trying to round the boar up to make sure it did not get run over.
Wild boars roam the Forest of Dean on the other side of the River Severn from Gloucester. There they can cause a nuisance when they get into gardens or on to playing fields, and some dog walkers and hikers are afraid of them.
Another man, Christopher Lewis, said the animals had been close to Gloucester city centre for years. “It wasn’t going to be long before they crossed Westgate Bridge,” he said.
