After Rachael Colandreo heard her pet hog was missing, she found him on Facebook.
The 600-pound Hampshire hog, known as Big Guy or Boar, ran away from Colandreo’s Newberry property and was later found by Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies Sunday morning.
“He’s an escape artist,” Colandreo said.
Big Guy was found in the 1200 block of Southwest 274th Street in Newberry, said Art Forgey, a sheriff’s office spokesman.
After deputies caught the hog using a rope, they took him to the sheriff’s office’s livestock impound, Forgey said. Big Guy would have been auctioned off if Colandreo had not come forward to claim her hog.
When the office posted about the find and pending auction on its Facebook page, Colandreo could not believe it, she said.
“I looked on there and sure enough he was there,” she said. “I was shocked to see him on Facebook.”
It’s not the first time Big Guy has run away. In the four to five years he has lived with Colandreo, he has run off multiple times, using his strength to knock down fencing.
“He’s like our big baby,” she said.
Colandreo said she plans to pick up Big Guy this week, and he’ll be greeted with a bag full of corn.
“He’ll get a nice meal,” she said. “I know that.”
After Rachael Colandreo heard her pet hog was missing, she found him on Facebook.
The 600-pound Hampshire hog, known as Big Guy or Boar, ran away from Colandreo’s Newberry property and was later found by Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies Sunday morning.
“He’s an escape artist,” Colandreo said.
Big Guy was found in the 1200 block of Southwest 274th Street in Newberry, said Art Forgey, an ACSO spokesman.
After deputies caught the hog using a rope, they took him to the sheriff’s office’s livestock impound, Forgey said. Big Guy would have been auctioned off if Colandreo had not come forward to claim her hog.
When the office posted about the find and pending auction on its Facebook page, Colandreo could not believe it, she said.
“I looked on there and sure enough he was there,” she said. “I was shocked to see him on Facebook.”
It’s not the first time Big Guy has run away. In the four to five years he has lived with Colandreo, he has run off multiple times, using his strength to knock down fencing.
“He’s like our big baby,” she said.
Colandreo said she plans to pick up Big Guy this week, and he’ll be greeted with a bag full of corn.
“He’ll get a nice meal,” she said. “I know that.”
