This pig escaped about three weeks ago from an address on IWV Road near the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center. It has since been returned to the owner. / Contributed photo
Authorities finally caught up with a particularly pig-headed fugitive Monday morning along the Coralville Strip, ending a county-wide hamhunt that began over the weekend. Animal control workers, Coralville Police officers and city streets department employees — nearly a dozen people in total — surrounded and netted a fleet-footed pot-bellied pig that had eluded officers much of Sunday.
Authorities first caught wind Friday of a pig outside of Iowa City, but deputies were unable to catch the animal, which made its way into Iowa City and Coralville in the ensuing days. Coralville Police Lt. Deb Summers said her department was alerted Sunday that the animal was in the area, and officers spent much of the afternoon and evening trying to locate, then corral the pig in the James Street area south of the Coralville Strip.
Officers had to give up at sundown, however, before they resumed the chase Monday morning. Authorities finally apprehended the pig using a heavy-duty net in the 600 block of Second Street back behind Dunkin’ Donuts, Summers said.
“Pigs scare easily from people to begin with, so it was kind of a struggle,” Summers said. “We had to get it surrounded, and they had the net ready. He didn’t give in easily, but he was obviously scared.”
Iowa City Animal Services director Misha Goodman, who was one of the animal workers on hand for the capture, said the pig was a male and weighed at least 200 pounds.
“We were able to get it in the net and flip it over upside down, which calmed it,” Goodman said. The pig, which was not injured, was transported to the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center, where, as it happened the owner called 20 minutes or so after the animal was brought in, Goodman said.
Goodman said the pig had escaped about three weeks ago from an address on IWV Road near the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center. It has since been returned to the owner.
Authorities first caught wind Friday of a pig outside of Iowa City, but deputies were unable to catch the animal, which made its way into Iowa City and Coralville in the ensuing days. Coralville Police Lt. Deb Summers said her department was alerted Sunday that the animal was in the area, and officers spent much of the afternoon and evening trying to locate, then corral the pig in the James Street area south of the Coralville Strip.
Officers had to give up at sundown, however, before they resumed the chase Monday morning. Authorities finally apprehended the pig using a heavy-duty net in the 600 block of Second Street back behind Dunkin’ Donuts, Summers said.
“Pigs scare easily from people to begin with, so it was kind of a struggle,” Summers said. “We had to get it surrounded, and they had the net ready. He didn’t give in easily, but he was obviously scared.”
Iowa City Animal Services director Misha Goodman, who was one of the animal workers on hand for the capture, said the pig was a male and weighed at least 200 pounds.
“We were able to get it in the net and flip it over upside down, which calmed it,” Goodman said. The pig, which was not injured, was transported to the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center, where, as it happened the owner called 20 minutes or so after the animal was brought in, Goodman said.
Goodman said the pig had escaped about three weeks ago from an address on IWV Road near the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center. It has since been returned to the owner.
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