Roving UHub photographer Christine Beaton reports spotting Stella the pig here at the dog park at Smith Playground in Allston today. That's no dog, you say. Well, sure, but in addition to her wearing a collar, Stella wagged her tail, she reports. That'll do.
Julia Weeks and her mom were driving on Centre Street near the quarry in West Roxbury today when they spotted some pig. A pig in somebody's front yard. Taking a snooze, as one does when one's a pig in somebody's front yard on a hot, humid day in West Roxbury.
There's a pig waddling down Bennington Street in East Boston, near Wood Island. Have it team up with some turkeys and we've got ourselves a new script.
Turlach MacDonagh went to the Brookline Rotary's Dog Day at the Brookline Avenue Playground, where one of the hounds he met was Bacon the Pig. "Truly one magical animal," he reports.
WBZ reports a newly feral pig attacked a man in Lexington on Thursday.
Pilotblock can now confirm you never know what you'll see in Copley Square at 7 a.m., in this case, Christopher the Pig.
Christopher lives in Montreal; while in the Boston area, he stays at the Copley Plaza, of course.
Craig Caplan spotted these two folks today walking their pig through Christopher Coumbus Park, as one does.
UPDATE: Thanks to Flannery O'Brien Skadberg for the identification of this pig about town as Wiggy the Piggy.
2. Our pigs aren't roaming the streets screaming at frightened children.
3. We don't have pregnant tarantulas roaming the streets, either.
Around 7 p.m. came word that somebody had squealed to the cops and an officer was duly assigned to determine whether there was a pink pig with black spots roaming the Public Garden.
Mission Hill's Bobby the Pig? After all, he's been known to enjoy snuffling through the Public Garden.
But maybe not. Audrey alerted us to Back Bay's own Frank the Pig (Frank being short for Francis, as in, you know, that English guy), whose owner, Hayley, likes taking him out for constitutionals around the neighborhood
Scott Eisen lets us in on the lives of Ryan Peterson and his pig, Bobby, who live on Mission Hill.
Ziggy the pig. Photo by Newton PD.
Newton Police report on a swine time this morning:
Call of a pig roaming around the Hagen Rd area. Sure enough when officers arrived they found Ziggy the pig in a back yard. A short time later the owner was found and said Ziggy got out through a hole in the fence of his backyard. The owner put Ziggy on a leash and took him home.
Bobby the Pig paid a visit to the Tasty Burger in the Fenway tonight, as Roar of the Tigers shows us.
Scott Eisen was on hand today as Bobby the Pig made the rounds of the Public Garden and ran into a guy dressed like his worst nightmare.
Photographer Scott Eisen has been spending some time with Ryan Peterson and his pet, Bobby.
Earlier:
Bobby on Newbury Street.
Leslee spotted some pig on Newbury Street the other day.
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The Proper Bostonian reports on a happy encounter with the Pot-bellied Pig of Mission Hill and a not-so-happy encounter with a bowl of fish that somebody just left on the sidewalk on Beacon Street between Mass. Ave. and Hereford:
I hope someone with an aquarium comes along and rescues them.
Penny Cherubino photographed a woman walking her pig on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in the Back Bay yesterday.
And then there's this video of three coyotes cavorting behind somebody's house on Weld Street in Roslindale (taken by a woman who obviously was keeping her toddler securely indoors):
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