article_snippet.sent: This is the moment that a crew of firefighters struggled to haul a giant  pig out of a garden swimming pool.
article_snippet.sent: The prize porker, known  as Pigwig, had fallen into a garden swimming pool in an upmarket neighbourhood in Ringwood, Hampshire.
article_snippet.sent: Giant pig owners had been taking Giant pig for a walk around the garden when the animal plunged into the water and was unable to get out.
article_snippet.sent: A team from Dorset Fire and Rescue struggled to haul Giant pig out of swimming pool water .
article_snippet.sent: The prize porker known as Pigwig had fallen into the water and had then been unable to get out again .
article_snippet.sent: Two fire crews and a specialist animal rescue team had to use slide boards and strops to haul Giant pig from the small pool.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said: 'At 4.50pm yesterday Rescue Service received a call to a pig stuck in a swimming pool. '
article_snippet.sent: One crew of firefighters from Ferndown and a specialist animal rescue unit from Poole were mobilised to this incident. '
article_snippet.sent: Once in attendance One crew of firefighters from Ferndown and a specialist animal rescue unit from Poole secured Giant pig with strops, and requested the attendance of another appliance which was mobilised from Ringwood by our colleagues in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
article_snippet.sent: One crew of firefighters from Ferndown and a specialist animal rescue unit from Poole rescued Giant pig from a swimming pool in Heyshott, West Sussex using specialist animal rescue slide boards, strops and lines to haul Giant pig from a swimming pool in Heyshott, West Sussex.'
article_snippet.sent: But Pigwig wasn't the only animal who needed rescuing after taking an unexpected swim .
highlights_snippet.sent: Giant pig fell into the swimming pool at Giant pig home in Ringwood, Hampshire .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: It took the efforts of a team of firefighters to winch Giant pig out of the water .
  