Neighbours of an elderly woman who was badly injured by a rampaging pig have called for the hog to be turned into sausages.
Marie Yates, 62, screamed for help as she was attacked by her next door neighbour Nick Jackson’s pig.
It is understood she had made repeated complaints to Defra about the animal but her concerns were ignored.
Now, outraged locals are demanding the pig, known as ‘Hammy’, is slaughtered and turned into sausages.
Marie Yates, 62, was mauled by a rampaging pig that had smashed out of its cramped pen in her neighbour’s garden
One said: ‘That thing is a monster. If it attacked a child it’d kill it no question.
‘The damn thing needs to be made into sausages. A pig is not a pet, it belongs on a farm. The next victim might not be so lucky.’
Another neighbour, who gave his name as Andy, added: ‘The poor lady almost lost her legs to this animal.
‘You say the word pig and it sounds lovable but this is easily 30 maybe even 40 stone and capable of tearing a human to pieces.
‘If it was a dog it’d be put down, the same should go for this pig.’
The animal had smashed out of its cramped pen and charged at Marie as she got into her car on her drive.
The pensioner will have to undergo plastic surgery on her wounds. She has been left with deep cuts and painful bruises
The pig, right, which belongs, to Nick Jackson, left, is believed to have escaped from its cramped pen before charging at Ms Yates as she entered her car
In a panic she called her brother Greg and told him ‘I’m bleeding to death’ after she was left her with deep gashes on both legs.
Retired bank manager Marie, who lives alone, is now facing plastic surgery and underwent an operation on Wednesday night to clean the wounds.
Speaking from her hospital bed today, Ms Yates, who now cares full-time for mum Margaret, 91, said: ‘It was terrifying, the whole thing.
‘It broke from its pen, as it quite often does, and it was roaming around on the front lawn. I’ve just been sick and tired of it getting out and causing havoc.
‘I made the mistake of starting to shoo it away by brushing it away with a broom, but that got it even angrier.
‘It attacked my legs, running at me and starting to bite me. I was trapped under it’s weight. It’s a huge animal and it was absolutely raging.
‘The noise of it squealing was deafening. I thought I was going to die.
‘It’s ripped the bottom of my legs off – I’ve had to have two surgeries and have been in hospital ever since.
‘There was blood absolutely everywhere.’
Ms Yates’ legs were badly damaged in the attack. She suffered deep gashes and at one point feared she would die
Retired bank manager Ms Yates, who lives alone, is now facing plastic surgery and underwent an operation on Wednesday night to clean the wounds
Painful: The out of control pig has two tusks and left Ms Yates bleeding heavily
Ms Yates told how she was worried when Jackson first got the animal because he told her it was a micro pig.
But since it arrived the beast has stunk out the street and it is more like a wild boar, she said.
She added: ‘It’s much bigger than they could have anticipated, and it’s just taken over.
‘I seem to notice the smell a lot more than other people that live on this street, and it’s something that’s really hard to live with, especially for my mum too.
‘I hate to be difficult about it, but something needs to be done about that thing. It’s broken through my fence on three separate occasions, and every time I have had to have it put back up.
‘They’ve offered to replace it [the neighbours], but I know that they will just use it as a pig pen.
‘It’s cost me about £400, and I’ve had to have the carpets cleaned several times when it’s come into the house.
‘It’s cost me money, lots of time and has generally been very hard for me to live with, especially while I’m having to look after mum too.
‘I went to see the council about it very soon after they got it, but they said that there was nothing that they could do, as they are licensed to have it.
‘I emailed environmental health about three months ago telling them about the stench from it, in an attempt to get it sorted.
‘We started moaning about the rats too, because it was a horrific stench.’
Ms Yates claimed Jackson initially said the animal would be a micro pig but since it has arrived it has been more like a wild boar
Heathfield Lane, in Darlaston, where the Ms Yates and her neighbour Nick Jackson live. Neighbours along the street said they heard Ms Yates shouting ‘the pig is attacking me!’
Mr Yates, 53, said: ‘She was just getting into to her car when she saw a pair of eyes looking back at her.
‘The pig just charged at her. She turned her back to it and it left her with a large gash down the back of her right leg. As she tried to get away it attack her front on and she was left with another deep wound on the front of her left leg.
‘She managed to escape by waiting in a space between the car and a wall. The pig was too fat to get into the space. She got into her car for protection and was bleeding all over the car. The pig went out into the streets and she got in the house.
‘It has completely wrecked the garden. There was blood all over the house. If it had been a child it would have killed them. There is every chance it will happen again.
‘We are animal lovers but the pig either needs to be removed or put down for everyone’s safety.
‘I understand the police were on shoot to kill orders but the pig owner’s girlfriend found it first.
‘We think they had a licence for a micro pig but this definitely isn’t a micro pig.’
Neighbours on the street ran to her aid and called emergency services.
Nelly and Trevor Jones live at number six and said: ‘I heard the dog barking and going mad and than I heard Maria shouting, ‘the pig is attacking me!’
‘When I ran round I didn’t notice the wounds at first but I just saw the blood running down into her shoes.
‘The pig was literally inches away from her and I got her into the my house and my wife called an ambulance.
A red Porsche is parked in the drive of the house where the pig’s owners live. The police were alerted to the rampaging animal, but it was recovered by its owners first
Another neighbour on Heathfield Lane said the pig was tiny when the owners bought it around four years ago but that it is now ‘fully grown’
‘From what I could see there were two big wounds about seven inches long and two inches deep, the paramedics were worried about how much blood she had lost.
‘The pig is huge and had two big tusks which did the damage.
‘He has a license for the pig and it is all above board so he was allowed to keep the pig there.’
Nick had kept the pig in the tiny pen for the last four years and posted pictures on his Facebook.
A woman at the property refused to comment today.
One neighbour said: ‘They have loads of animals there, dogs, chickens and birds.
‘I think they had the pig about four years ago and it was tiny but now it’s a fully grown pig and they keep it in a tiny pen.
‘It escaped from the pen, probably because it was bored and it’s made a real mess of the garden.
‘I don’t think they get on with the neighbours because the smell in the Summer is awful.
‘It’s so dangerous because it could get through the fence to our garden where our children are playing.’
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘Police received a call to a pig on the loose in Darlaston at 9.26am on Wednesday.
‘One police officer was at the scene and so were the ambulance service.
‘A 62-year-old woman was treated for injuries to her leg from the pig, which was taken back to its pen at a home in the same road.’