"Wilbur The Pig" Seeks New Home

In Lake County, Ohio, The News Herald reports:

• [T]he newest guest at the [Lake Humane Society pet] shelter is proving that the [foreclosure] crisis is affecting more than typical household pets.The shelter recently took in Wilbur, a black pot-bellied pig whose family had to relocate and surrender their special pet. The staff is hoping the friendly porker will find a new family to love. "(Wilbur) is used to more freedom, and shelter life just isn't his puddle of mud," says Gail Keegan, executive director of the Lake Humane Society. "He seems unaffected as he wags his tail and plays with his food ball, but he is a very social pig.

For more, see Pig victim of foreclosure.