A pig on the road (52)

My wife and I use to go to a Christmas fair at mansion called Taxinge. The last year, in the dusk, when we went home, we saw a little wild boar piglet in the meadow. It was striped and very cute, as if it wore a striped pyjamas. This was the first time we saw such an animal in the nature. We had seen the tracks of them in the wood where we use to pick mushrooms but we haven´t seen them alive. This year, when we went home from the same market, we saw an animal the second time, but much bigger. We thought it might be a moose, but when the animal turned up on the road we understood that it was a grownup wild bore. When I broke to avoid an accident, the car behind us overtook us, the driver hadn´t seen the animal. But luckily enough the wild bore got time to disappear out in the wood. The wild bore is back in the Swedish forests. It was extinguished in the 17th century but around 1970 some farmers introduced it in enclosures. Some of these animals escaped from the enclosures and in this way we got a wild strain of wild bores again in Sweden. Now there are wild bores in all the South of Sweden. And one can also see a new type of warning sign along the Swedish roads – with a wild bore on it! I read in the news that people steal them because they are so odd. Before it was the signs with moose's on them they stole. Especially Germans like a souvenir with a moose on it. Now they sell moose signs to the tourists. But of course, it´s not as thrilling as it is to steal them. Maybe we can find wild bore signs I the tourist shops soon….