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Several people called police on Thursday afternoon (Friday morning AEST) to report the little pig running on and off the road in the small town of Sebastopol, in California’s wine-filled Sonoma County.
But the Sevastopol police department said that when officers got to the northern Gravenstein highway to try to retrieve it, the piglet “proved to be very fast and strong for an animal of its size.”
“Officers, along with bystanders, helped chase the little pig for several city blocks until it was finally cornered in a side yard on Soll Court and taken into custody,” police said.
“The pig, later identified as ‘Pickles’, was reunited with its mother at the scene.”
In the end, it wasn’t the officers Whitehall and Thomas who stopped the pig, but the local man, known only as Michael W.
L Mattock Scarriot told local station KORK North Bay TV that she drove about two and a half hours north of Gilroy to pick up the pig, which was up for adoption.
When she stopped to clean up after Pickles had an “accident” in the car, the little pig ran off, sparking the incident that quickly went viral.
“I never thought when I got Pickles he would become so famous,” Scott wrote on Facebook.
“Thanks again to the Sevastopol Police Department and everyone who helped capture Pickles.
“We are so in love with him. He’s so spoiled with his own mud puddle, shady spot and five-star kitchen.”
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