On the Nextdoor West Cobb: Hillgrove social network, there’s usually no shortage of postings about lost cats and dogs.
During the last few months, though, neighbors have been captivated by errant swine sightings.
Yes, pigs.
Apparently, at one point there were several running around Marietta and Kennesaw.
One was sighted chasing a neighbor’s turkeys. There was another sighting of a pig headed toward the Hobby Lobby on Barrett Parkway.
And a motorist nearly made bacon of one crossing Dallas Highway near a Kroger store.
“Did you lose your pig? A small pig appeared here this afternoon at Jones Family Farm (Friendship Church Rd.). We cornered him in a fenced in area, but he escaped and is headed thru the neighborhood toward Dallas Hwy.”
Another wrote:
“I saw the little black pig on Casteel Road in the Riverstone Montessori parking lot. Tried to lure him worth (sic) apples, but no luck. He continued on his way down Casteel Rd heading toward Smitha Elementary.”
The sightings began in September and continued through October. Most involved black pigs, but someone mentioned a white one and a brownish one.
A post on Facebook got 60 shares.
Realtor Linda Lloyd enjoyed the pig updates.
She was surprised to see the animals in a yard in West Cobb. “We’re in neighborhoods, not on a farm,” she said, laughing. “They didn’t look like they were starving, but they didn’t come up to be patted either.”
Their escape to freedom, though, may be short lived.
Jacob Arnold, shelter operations manager for Cobb County Animal Services, said officers picked up one pig on Thursday.
“We got a few calls for pigs, but by the time an officer got there, they were gone,” he said. He said the facility has barns for livestock such as goats and cows that may have wandered away from home.
Officers have to be quick to catch a pig.
“You can’t put a leash on them like a dog. They’re faster than you think they would be.”
Some owners microchip or tag their livestock.
Odd animals sightings are rare, but not unheard of.
Over the years there are been reports of bison and a zebra running amok on Georgia roads.
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