Weird BUT true

This pet pig could have ended up a pork roast if it weren’t for cops in Orange County, Calif.

Sheriff’s deputies rescued Ramone the pig after finding him locked in a sweltering BMW in Tustin Wednesday. Alerted by animal-care workers, the cops had to track down the car’s owner to set the poor piggy free.

“As we approach summer, remember to not leave your animals inside the vehicle,” the department warned on Facebook with a photo of Ramone trapped in the car.

A British man had to be rescued from a tree after trying to retrieve his escaped pet parrot.

The bird had perched in the tree after flying out of its cage at its Earley home and out a window, with his owner in hot pursuit.

The man was saved, but his bird “made a bid for freedom and succeeded,” said firefighter Michael Novell.

A Hemet, Calif., family got a shock when they opened up a box carrying a bicycle they had ordered from Walmart — and found a bearded dragon inside.

Animal-control officials said the reptile, native to Australia, was probably someone’s pet that crawled into the box during packing.

They are trying to track down the lizard’s owners.

This circus elephant tried to run away and join society.

The pachyderm was spotted strolling through the small western German town of Neuwied Wednesday.

Stunned locals called cops. And handlers from a nearby traveling circus arrived to recapture the African elephant, named Kenia.

A Texas man decapitated a rattlesnake — but it bit him anyway.

Milo Sutcliffe and wife Jennifer were doing yard work at their Lake Corpus Christi home when the 4foot-long snake emerged.

Milo attacked it with a shovel, lopping off its head. The head bit him when he tried to toss it in the trash.

He needed 26 doses of antivenom, his wife said.