Ohio piglet escaped transport truck headed to slaughter

One a-boar-able piglet got a second lease on life after she fell off a transport truck that was likely taking her to be slaughtered.

Heart-warming bodycam footage captured the moment Ohio State Troopers rescued the sow — affectionately named Pearl Pancetta — from the highway in Ross County to bring her to her new home.

“This little piggy DIDN’T make it to the market,” the department wrote in the caption of the video.

The troopers rummaged through the roadside brush in search of the tiny porker after receiving reports of a piglet running across US Route 35, roughly 45 miles south of Colombus.

The officers quickly spotted a flash of pink beneath the green forage and pounced on Pearl Pancetta before she could make another escape.

The understandably terrified piglet erupted into squeals as the strangers carried her back to their patrol car.

“Now what?” one officer can be heard saying.

“Aw, baby!” the second trooper cawed at Pearl as she tenderly stroked the anxious pig.

In spite of her dangerous fall — or daring leap — from a moving car, the piglet suffered minor road rash, but no other injuries.

Pearl seemed to calm down, however, after her rescuers wrapped her in a retro-reflective vest and placed her in the back of their cruiser.

The troopers took her to the Ross County Humane Society, which hooked her up with a temporary home to recover from her minor scratches.

After she recovers, the piglet will be permanently moved to a safe haven for farm animals, where she will be able to grow into the 600-pound pig she was born to be.

“Pearl will be joining some pot-bellied friends in a few days where she will live out her life and not become pancetta,” the Humane Society said.