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The driver of a transport truck managed to avoid a moose loitering on the Trans-Canada Highway just east of Wolseley, Sask., Monday night, but the result was around 400 two-week-old piglets running wild on the road.

It took the combined efforts of police, local farmers and seven members of the Grenfell Fire Department more than two hours to marshal the piglets to safety.

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“It was interesting, that’s for sure,” said Grenfell Fire Chief Dwayne Stone.

The incident kicked off just before 11 p.m., when the driver of a transport trailer loaded with 2,500 piglets swerved to avoid a moose, causing him to lose control and the truck to roll into the ditch.

The impact caused the livestock trailer to break open and hundreds of tiny, 15-pound hogs to hightail it out of a tear in the roof.

“They were running in the ditch, onto the highway, so … we were just trying to get them off the road safely,” Stone said.

They were squealing, fighting. There was a lot of noise

In a streak of ingenuity, the fire department strapped together four medical backboards to form a “V”, using it to round the piglets back toward the overturned truck where “they seemed to be a lot calmer.”