Sunday, October 30, 2005

Pigs in the yard?

Okay, now I KNOW I'm in the 'burbs. The fella insists there were pigs in our (very small) front yard last night.

We've had cats and squirrels, but pigs are a new development.

He bases this on having heard gravel crunching, snorts, and squeals. I slept through it.

I can't imagine where even one pig, let alone more, might have come from, unless someone's pot-bellied Vietnamese minis got loose, or possibly wild boars roam down from the mountainside late at night.

Either way, it is very peculiar.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've seen people walking pigs on leashes in Berkeley...

BBJ said...

If they're feral, I don't think I should try.

Is netilas yadaim done for handling animals in general, or trayf critters in particular?

Anonymous said...

I've heard a squeeling sound from my Berkeley yard late at night, but I'm sure it wasn't pigs. I've seen both opossums and racoons, with babies, over the years, so I assume it was one of them.