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Update: Two Big Pigs Roam the Streets of Attleboro

Two pigs were trying to find their way home in Attleboro Tuesday night.

One Attleboro neighborhood had an after-dinner visit from two Attleboro pigs who ran away from their farm. Neighbors wondered if they were looking for their friends Babe, Wilbur, Porky or maybe Miss Piggy.

The pigs, one black and the other pink, were roaming through the streets of Robin's Nest, located off of Lindsey Street, Tuesday night eating anything in their path and having fun wallowing in the wet mulch in the yards of homes on Cedar Creek Drive. 

The pigs, both males, were later identified as "BIG" and "Trouble." 

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After roaming through swing sets, soccer nets and taking a bite out of one resident's solar lights, their owner, Brandon Slowey and two of his buddies, attempted to corall the pigs. They did not have much luck as the two big pigs ducked in and out of yards. 

"Oh my gosh there's two, 150-pound pigs in my front yard," said Attleboro resident, Bobbi-Jo Dennis. "But they are eating my weeds so that okay!"

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Neighborhood children ran out of their homes in the cul de sac to watch the pigs roll around in the mulch and eat weeds. There have been wild turkeys, raccoons, snapping turtles and of course the neighborhood dogs, but never had they seen the pigs roaming the street. 

Slowey, who keeps the pigs at land owned by his grandfather, Roger Desvergnes, apologized to neighbors over any damage they may have caused to lawns or flowers. Neighbors did not huff or puff over the incident. In fact, they had a good laugh.

Tina Garfinkel and her husband and their trio got a good view of the pigs. 

"Besides the pigs at Briggs, those were the biggest I've ever seen," Tina Garfinkel said. "Although I was a bit worried about my neighbor's bunny-he would have been the perfect little snack for them!"


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