Swine discovery has Sarasota officers seeking pig's owner

Sarasota police took into custody an unlikely fugitive overnight: a 100-pound, pot-bellied pig.

No, there won’t be any swine/law enforcement jokes here, but the friendly and cooperative runaway porker wore no collar and carried no sign of whom it belongs to, other than its black spots on generally white hair with a touch of pink.

And probably a curly tail.

And the fact it’s a pig in an urbanized area of about 60,000 people, so there’s probably not a lot of home possibilities.

Officers came upon the animal responding to a report of, you guessed it, a pig in the road. They found just that in the neighborhood around Lemon Avenue and Central Avenue around 1:30 a.m.

The pig was taken to Sarasota County Animal Services, where it’s likely living high on the hog.

Anyone with information on who might own the raw materials of bacon should call 861-9500. 

Before breakfast, preferably.