California Deputies Use Trail of Doritos to Lure Runaway Pig

SAN BERNARDINO, California -- A trail of Doritos potato chips helped lure a runaway pig “the size of a mini-horse” home in California, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department post on Instagram.

Well if this doesn’t go on the list of unusual calls... 🐖 Highland Station received a call reference a pig "the size of a mini horse" 🐷🐴 running around the neighborhood. Deputy Ponce and Deputy Berg found him and due to previous calls, knew where he lived. They lured him back home with @Doritos one of our deputies had in her lunch bag 😋. They made a trail and he followed. “We were able to put him back in and secure the gate. It was fun!” said Deputy Ponce. Crime fighting to safely securing a mini horse sized pig, we do it all 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Two deputies responded to a Highland, California, neighborhood for an “unusual call” regarding a loose pig, sheriff’s officials wrote Sunday on Instagram.

The deputies quickly found the runaway pig, with whom they’d previously become acquainted, and re-purposed Doritos from a lunch bag to lure the pig back home, sheriff’s officials wrote.

“We were able to put him back in and secure the gate. It was fun!” one deputy said, according to the post, which also noted, “we do it all!”

In North Carolina, a pair of escaped pigs found swimming together to safety after Hurricane Florence are now faithful companions as they recover at a refuge, reported The News & Observer.

“They were both a terrified, nervous wreck when they were first found, and both were in awful shape, covered in cuts and bruises, coughing up water for days, and on top of this, Jax was unable to open his eyes,” wrote Ziggy’s Refuge rescuers on Facebook about the pigs, named Jax and Flo.

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