{"id":4998,"date":"2025-10-17T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4998\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:07:18","slug":"bensalem-township-police-search-for-pig-on-the-loose-in-bucks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4998\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem Township police search for pig on the loose in Bucks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Bucks County have been on a wild goose chase for the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More accurately, they&#8217;ve been on a wild hog chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities in Bensalem Township are on the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/19aBEVPFkw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lookout for an elusive pig<\/a> that has been evading capture. Residents in the area say they&#8217;ve seen and fed the pig, but haven&#8217;t been able to capture it.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Bucks County search for elusive pig on the loose<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He is a cute pig, as far as pigs go,&#8221; resident Vicki Shaup told Action News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shaup saw the pig on Monday while out on her usual walk. At first, she said she thought it was a dog, until she got a little closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I saw the spots on it. I thought it didn&#8217;t look like a dog. I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I think that&#8217;s the pig that everyone&#8217;s been looking for,'&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shaup said while she wasn&#8217;t sure what to do, the pig seemed friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He didn&#8217;t make any noises, he just wagged his tail at me and smiled with this little, whatever that&#8217;s called &#8212; a snout,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The pig &#8212; dubbed Oscar by neighbors &#8212; was last spotted off of Bensalem Boulevard and Flushing Road, according to local leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police are asking that if anyone sees Oscar to call the non-emergency number at 215-633-3719.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by Bensalem Police\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15556971_pig-wanted.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image provided by Bensalem Police<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers say they worry the animal may accidentally wander into a roadway or be impacted by the increasingly cold weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;m worried about the pig. I&#8217;ll tell you that someone is going to do something to the pig because people are making all kinds of bacon jokes,&#8221; said Shaup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Once in custody, officials say the pig will be taken to a rescue, checked by a veterinarian, and put up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Bucks County have been on a wild goose chase for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4605,191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-4998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-4605","9":"tag-bensalem","10":"tag-bensalem-headlines","11":"tag-bensalem-news","12":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}