Pig breaks out of a trailer and leaps into road as it is being taken to slaughter in Ukraine [Video]

Saving its bacon! Moment pig breaks out of a moving trailer and leaps into road as it is being taken to slaughter

  • The pig used its snout to break out of its trailer on a Ukrainian motorway
  • The escapade was caught on camera by a man who can be heard egging it on
  • It is unknown whether the farmer managed to recapture the pig for slaughter
  • The footage has gone viral this week with more than 484k views on TikTok alone 

This is the moment a pig made a dramatic leap for freedom as it was being driven to the slaughterhouse. 

The animal was filmed from the car behind as it broke out of the trailer carrying it in the city of Mukachevo, in western Ukraine.

A man can be heard egging on the hog’s escape bid as he films it on his phone. 

Footage of the incident has gone viral, with two videos posted on TikTok amassing more than 484,000 views since being posted earlier this week. 

The pig pushed at insecure slat on its trailer to make a break for it in city of Mukachevo, in western Ukraine

The filming passenger of the car behind the trailer managed to stop before hitting the pig after it escaped

The filming passenger of the car behind the trailer managed to stop before hitting the pig after it escaped

In the footage, the man filming shouts at the pig: ‘Come on, not far to go. Come on,’ as the pushes at a slat on the back of the trailer with its nose.

The porker can then be seen trying to squeeze between the loosened slat and tailgate of the vehicle transporting it and several other pigs.

Eventually the pig manages to throw itself into the road, into the path of the filmer’s car.

However, the driver brakes in time, as the pig darts across the road and another car swerves to avoid hitting it.

The farmer quickly noticed the pig had escaped and the footage pulling over to the side of the road. But it is unclear if he caught the fleeing pig.

The pig eventually escaped the trailer and was lucky to not get hit by traffic on the motorway

The pig can be seen landing on the motorway before darting to the side of the road

The pig was lucky not to be hit by passing cars as it landed on the motorway

It is not known whether the pig managed to be recaptured by the farmer driving the truck

It is not known whether the pig managed to be recaptured by the farmer driving the truck

It’s not the first time a pig has been caught on camera staging a dramatic escape.

Footage filmed in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2018, showed the bizarre moment a small pig was filmed sticking its snout through the rear tail light opening of a car.

The farm animal was pushing its head out of the boot of the silver car as the tail-light dangled in front of it.

The man driving the battered silver, four-door VW Golf appeared completely unaware of his animal cargo’s antics – much to the amusement of a passing driver.