A PIG has been rescued from a swimming pool by fire crews.
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service received a call at 4:50pm to the pig stuck in a swimming pool in East Dorset.
One crew from Ferndown attended as did the specialist animal rescue unit from Poole.
The animal was stuck in a pool in Ashley, near Ringwood.
Once in attendance, the crews secured the pig, known as Pigwig, with strops and requested attendance of another appliance which was mobilised from Ringwood.
The crew rescued the pig from the swimming using specialist animal rescue slideboards, strops and lines to hau it from the pool.
The rescue was complete by just after 5.30pm.
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