Rescued Pig

Another dip into Abstract August .

Mum used to call these pigs, no idea why!

PoJT - passed a Rolls Royce stranded on the road side. It appeared to have run out of fuel. Oh how we laughed.

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What is it?

[Susan Wakely]

I have always called them chuggypigs and don’t ask me why.

[LManning (Laura)]

It looks like a space alien, but it's cool!

[Casablanca]

I am struggling to work out what it is....I thought chuggypigs were woodlice?

[Phil Sandford]

Woodlouse ?

[JackieR]

@phil_sandford @casablanca @ljmanning @wakelys @g3xbm

The clue is in the tags!!!

[Casablanca]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond I shall have to start reading tags then!!

[katy]

I thought it was an armadillo! You definitely will not be getting any siders with this pig or any snouters either

[Phil Sandford]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond Didn’t look at the tags

@casablanca - same

[Peter]

Well spotted and captured woodlouse Jackie it looks much larger than it is well done:)

[JackieR]

@pcoulson it was teeny tiny
@grammyn or a making bacon!!
@wakelys never heard of chuggypigs! But perhaps Mum abbreviated that??

@casablanca @phil_sandford I often leave clues and messages in tags!!

[Joanne Diochon]

At first glance I thought it was a red cabbage! LOL

[narayani]

We call them slaters

[Shutterbug]

Whole new thing to me. Interesting capture.

[Kathy]

Amazing how tightly it rolled. I think I know these rollypollys.

[Kathy A]

Wow, it's very tightly rolled!

[Issi Bannerman]

Is that a wood louse? We call them slaters up here.

[JackieR]

@jamibann new word to me
@kjarn it was for quite awhile
@randystreat it did roll
@shutterbug49 you must have these?
@narayani so does issi @jamibann
@gardencat what a thought!!

[Rob Z]

What a super shot of him all curled up! He looks like a little slater?

[Brian]

Hiding in plain sight

[Wylie]

As @robz said, we call them slaters!

[Beverley]

Such a giggle…. Fabulas fun ladies…

[Mary Siegle]

Looks like what we call roly-polies or pill bugs here. I never stopped to think about what they actually are — “In the wood lice family” I learned something. Thanks!