In late July, Sonoma was buzzing about a various sort of wildlife roaming the community. The residents of Sonoma Mountain’s Diamond A subdivision ended up utilized to sharing the terrain with deer, coyotes, foxes, wild cats, squirrels and rattlesnakes.

But a drove of pigs was a different tale.

“At to start with we imagined they ended up wild pigs who somehow discovered their way to our neighborhood in research of foods or water,” said Michelle Vidro, a Diamond A neighbor.

But a check out from animal expert services decided the pigs were not feral at all. These ended up domestic, potbelly pigs, abandoned by an proprietor to fend for on their own.

Unfortunately, this circumstance is all too acquainted to area animal rescue businesses.

“Next to roosters, potbelly pigs are by considerably the animals we get the most requests to consider in,” mentioned Kaleigh Rhoads, operations supervisor at Charlie’s Acres