Animal Control Captures Two Elusive Potbelly Pigs

Two potbelly pigs on the loose in Linthicum for nearly a month have been safely captured by county animal control officers.

Anne Arundel County Animal Control said it had been searching for the two pigs since Sept. 2, and located one of them last week with help from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The second pig was captured Wednesday with the aid of tranquilizers at the 600 block of Hammonds Ferry Road.

The pigs, who have been named Miss Piggy and Kermit, were reunited Wednesday at Anne Arundel County Animal Control headquarters in Millersville.

"They are settling in," Animal Control Administrator Robin Small said.

Animal Control began looking for the pigs this month after they were spotted roaming in the area.

"We just started getting all these calls from people seeing pigs," she said.

It is unclear where the pigs came from, but Small said it's likely that they belonged to an owner who was no longer able to take care of them.

The pigs will stay at Animal Control for a required five days, and will be spayed and neutered. Animal Control has contacted the Pig Placement Network to find someone to adopt the pigs. Small said there has already been one applicant, who is believed to live in the area, and that the hope is that the pigs will be adopted together.

"They are very attached to one another," she said.

Small said the pigs appeared to have lost a significant amount of weigh while in the wild.