Pub for sale, pig included 

Owner of the Pub in the Paddock, Anne Free, has put it on the market after having it for the past nine years and, inset, Pinky the beer-drinking pig. This little piggy is on the market along with the famous Tasmanian pub it calls home. A lot of people dream about owning a pub. But what about a pub, in a paddock in the East Coast hinterland complete with its own beer-drinking, tourist-luring pig?

Pyengana's famous Pub in the Paddock is on the market, and while owner Anne Free is sad to be moving on she is needed on her family's farm at Glen Huon. The pub's first famous beer-drinking pig, Priscilla, has passed on, but her prodigy Pinky is enjoying all the things pub life has to offer. And, of course, she comes with the 1880-built pub.

Visitors buy a specially-prepared stubby of pig beer at the bar and Pinky comes over to bond over "a coldy". "I never thought I would have to compete with a pig but that is what happens here, people come to the pub to meet the pig not me". Mrs Free, 65, has owned the pub for nine years. The Pub in the Paddock is on the market for $800,000, and sits on 2.8ha, offering accommodation and trout fishing.