Thelma and Louise were rescued by trading standards officers

The black pigs were rescued by trading standards officers, who suspect they had been dumped.

On Monday, they arrived at their new home in Endon, Staffordshire.

Sarie Goldstraw, who runs the rare-breed farm where they have moved to, said they had been distressed by the journey but had since calmed down.

"The names suit them - they have been a rogueing pair up to mischief," said Ms Goldstraw, who runs the Post Bridge Cottage Farm.

"They will now live their life out on the farm."

Once they were caught, they have settled down quite nicely and are quite friendly Kevin Jones, Wrexham council

Ms Goldsmith, who was approached by Wrexham council to take care of them, said that pigs were difficult to handle domestically.

"People take them on as piglets, but they grow into big pigs - you quite simply cannot keep them at the end of a garden."

Thelma and Louise were spotted in the Glascoed Road area of Bwlchgwyn last Wednesday.

"The officers who rounded them up felt they were in very good condition," said Kevin Jones, a senior trading standards officer.

"The area in which they were dumped is quite a wooded area of Wrexham and is a well-known fly-tipping spot."

He added that it took three trading standards officers, two RSPCA officers and a local farmer to catch them.

The pigs have been found a new home on a farm

"Between the six of them, they successfully managed to round them up," he said.

"Obviously they weren't familiar with the surroundings they were in, and they weren't familiar with the officers who actually caught them.

"Once they were caught, they have settled down quite nicely and are quite friendly."

He said they had had a lot of offers from local people and farmers who were keen to take them on, but felt the Staffordshire centre was a more suitable home for them.

Carol Harris, a pedigree pig breeder from Powys, said people who kept pigs needed to know what they were doing.

"Even a pot-bellied pig, you can be talking about 10 stone - they are quite substantial animals."

Thelma and Louise are the latest pigs to make the headlines.

In 1998, two pigs in Wiltshire who escaped on their way to the abattoir became known as the Tamworth Two - their adventures were later adapted in a BBC film.