Fourth wandering pig, dubbed Boss Hogg, captured on San Antonio streets

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A wandering pig, named Boss Hogg by ACS staff, was picked up from a West Side neighborhood Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. ACS spokeswoman Lisa Norwood said their latest arrival is a micro-pig.

For the fourth time in more than two weeks, Animal Care Services has picked up a wandering pig.

Friday morning, ACS officers responded to a call from a West Side resident about a pig that family members had tied in their yard. Thursday night, the pig showed up on their property and tried to follow the family as they entered their home. The small pig banged his head on the door several times until family members contained him by tying him to a tree in the yard.

The residents said their visitor expressed displeasure with his plight by squealing throughout the night.

ACS spokeswoman Lisa Norwood said their latest arrival is a micro-pig, a breed of pig bred to keep as an exotic pet and also used for medical research.

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Shelter staff members named the pig Boss Hogg. He weighs 75 pounds, is gray with dark spots and a streaks of ginger through his coat.

Norwood said residents should take care if they ever encounter a stray pig, because they are very strong, intelligent and can be a public safety issue.

“The current law is pigs are not allowed in San Antonio,” she said. “This is about so much more, no family wants to wake up to a large farm animal at their house or have to figure out how to keep it out of their home. These are not wild pigs, it’s not an issue of encroachment or driving out an existing population, this burgeoning pig population is very mysterious.”

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The spate of sightings started two weeks ago.

In the first case, ACS officers picked up a wild piglet saved from several roaming dogs by a Good Samaritan. The piglet was only at the ACS campus for a few hours, before it was taken to a local wildlife rescue organization.

On Tuesday, at dawn, an ACS team caught Buttercup, a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig that had eluded capture for weeks near Leon Valley. The team enticed her to a cage with a marshmallow and a bag of donuts.

Thursday morning, ACS officers picked up Polly, an American Yorkshire, from a neighborhood near Babcock Road that backs up to Bamberger Nature Park. Norwood said a rescue group is on the way to transport Buttercup and Polly to their new home in Colorado; they’re hoping that Boss Hogg can also hitch a ride.

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