The big black pig evidently mistook estate agent Danny Wynyard-Wright for an election candidate when he arrived to take a picture of the family pet for sale with a house in Prestwood.

You could see from the New Zealand kune kune's expression she was fearful of being told porkies. "She has that quizzical look in her eye," said Danny. "She's usually very friendly. She makes the perfect lawnmower."

She's so much at home rooting around in the paddock and stable at Granny's, the handsome six- bedroom house on the books of Wynyard-Wright and Ellis for £675,000, the owners are prepared to move without her if a buyer takes a shine to the pet they've christened Pig.

The house gets its name because it was built in the 1960s for Granny Hildreth, the grandmother of the family who own the garden centre on the opposite side of the road that leads to the village.

The current owners use one of the six bedrooms as a first floor study, but there are also two good sized ground floor reception rooms 20ft and 25ft as well as a 20ft kitchen/breakfast room and sep-arate utility.

The grounds, amounting to about an acre, include a swimming pool that's become a 12ft deep pond filled with koi carp.

As for the resident in the stable, any mention of "rasher" or "bacon" and she'll leg it into the removal van and be off to pastures new with the present family.