New digs for pig captured in chase
A little piggy has been adopted after she got loose and sent Good Samaritans on a hog hunt through San Francisco’s Mission District this month.
Janice the wayward piglet’s new home will be with Al Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue in Sebastopol, San Francisco Animal Care and Control announced Friday.
“We’re gonna miss her,” said Deb Campbell, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Animal Care and Control, the shelter where Janice has been staying. “She’s so awesome. She’s so cute.”
The 10- pound porker led a group of people on a chase on Dolores Street on March 8, running under cars to evade her pursuers and prompting a police officer to block traffic in the area. Brother Damian of the Society of Saint Francis headed the pursuit.
“We had a threeblock up- and- down and up- and- down chase,” he said the day of Janice’s capture.
The 46- year- old friar’s morning prayer service in the Mission was interrupted around 8: 30 a. m. by a St. Francis deacon who told him a pig was running around the busy intersection at 19th and Dolores streets.
“It was a quick little piglet,” Brother Damian said.
Eventually, a construction worker caught the swift swine, and animal control workers gave Janice her name — and a temporary home at the shelter.
Though her owner never came forward, dozens of people tried to adopt the unclaimed piglet. The shelter decided to go with Wolf, who founded the reptile nonprofit in 1989, because of his animal expertise, Campbell said.
Come 11 a. m. Saturday, Wolf will pick up Janice from the shelter to take her to her new home.
“We’re gonna miss her. She’s so awesome. She’s so cute.” Deb Campbell, spokeswoman for San Francisco’s Animal Care and Control