The prize porker, known as Pigwig, had fallen into the pool in an upmarket neighbourhood in Ringwood, Hampshire.
His owners had been taking him for a walk around the garden when the animal plunged into the water and was unable to get out.
Two fire crews and a specialist animal rescue team had to use slide boards and strops to haul the huge black pig from the small pool.
A spokesman for Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said: 'At 4.50pm yesterday the service received a call to a pig stuck in a swimming pool. One crew of firefighters from Ferndown and a specialist animal rescue unit from Poole were mobilised to this incident.
'Once in attendance the crew secured the pig with strops, and requested the attendance of another appliance which was mobilised from Ringwood by our colleagues in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
'The crew rescued the pig from the swimming pool using specialist animal rescue slide boards, strops and lines to haul the pig from the swimming pool.'
But Pigwig wasn't the only animal who needed rescuing after taking an unexpected swim. Crews in West Sussex were called out to a swimming pool where this time a horse had fallen in.
Wet and very bedraggled, the exhausted animal put up no opposition when firefighters arrived to hoist her out of the small garden pool in Heyshott.
The two-hour rescue operation ended with the wayward horse being fitted with straps under her belly and lifted up into the air with an all-terrain crane before being swung around and deposited back on dry land.
A fire brigade spokesman said that she appeared none the worse for her impromptu swim after stepping over the edge of the domestic pool.
(Daily Mail - April 3, 2015)
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