PIGS

A San Antonio animal shelter had double the trouble after picking up a pair of pigs that were found roaming freely in city limits.

Two birds oiled after an undersea pipeline ruptured off the Southern California coast have been treated and released. Officials have reported 28 oiled birds since the spill a little more than a week ago off the coast of Orange County. (Oct. 13)

Truck drivers say highway closures and restrictions in parts of the Intermountain West and Rockies during a winter storm are complicating supply chain issues.

Farmers' livelihoods are at stake due to a shortage of abattoir workers, according to the farmers' union.

A labour shortage in abattoirs means some 600 pigs have already been shot and discarded.

The UK's farmers are warning of a backlog of as many as 70,000 pigs that should have been slaughtered.

The sow, named Matilda, escaped from a farm and gave birth in woodland.

The illegal transportation of wild pigs on the “underground wild pig railroad” has caused a massive explosion in population for the animals in a term Zoologist John “Jack” Mayer has coined a “pig bomb.”