A Pasco County pet pig found itself in quite the predicament.
Piggy, a six month old Yorkshire pig, pulled what his owner Anne Hammond calls "a Houdini" over the weekend and somehow managed to squeeze out of his pen on Kimberly Avenue in Zephyrhills.
He then wandered down the street into a neighbors yard. Shannon Shafer found him and said she immediately knew he was someone's pet and put him inside her house for safe keeping. But while she was out, piggy was pig-napped.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says Earl Florer, of Dade City, was collecting scrap metal from Shafer's yard.
They say when Shafer left, he opened the window to the room where Piggy was being kept, reached in and snatched him. They say Florer then turned around and sold Piggy for $40.
Luckily, it didn't take long for detectives to track Piggy down.
Meanwhile, Florer was arrested and charged with burglary.