pet pig wandered away in Humboldt. Police say a neighbor killed her for no apparent reason.
pet pig wandered away in Humboldt. Police say a neighbor killed her for no apparent reason.
It started on March 23, when a pet pig named Princess wandered away from her home in Humboldt County. Princess wasn't one of those teacup pigs that you can carry around like a chihuahua. She was a big girl, nearly 400 pounds, according to the Lost Coast Outpost.
But the fact that she wandered away wasn't out of the ordinary at all.
"Believe it or not, that's not a super uncommon call for us. We have a lot of loose livestock calls," said Dockweiler. "It is very common to have loose cows, loose horses, loose goats. [In this part of Arcata] it's still a neighborhood environment but a lot of folks have a few acres."
An officer responded and found Princess hanging out in someone's yard. The officer asked the property owner if he wouldn't mind keeping the pig in his yard until they could track down its owner, a practice Dockweiler says is common for these kinds of loose livestock issues.
The neighbor happily obliged and the officer went off to track down Princess's owner. Her owner was already looking for her too, so she was easy to identify. But when the officer went back to retrieve Princess from the yard about an hour later, he stumbled upon something shocking: a butchering in progress.
"Obviously that was a bit of a shock to everyone involved. ... Given the stage of the butchering process he was in, he must have slaughtered the pig very shortly after the officer left," Dockweiler said.
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According to Arcata police, slaughtering a pig that doesn't belong to you is a crime. Officers are expecting to forward a criminal charge to the district attorney's office after their investigation is complete.
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