A family from Llano County, Texas were held prisoners in their own home by a “very large” and deranged pig Monday.
The black-and-white spotted pig attacked the daughter and parents of Wendy Goldstein, she told Fox 7. Goldstein said the insane animal weighed around 300 pounds, and was foaming at the mouth as it attacked her daughter, before hurtling into Goldstein’s home in Kingsland.
“My mom tried to lay on top of him to crunch him down until the cops got here to get him, he overpowered her and got on top of her,” Goldstein told reporters on Tuesday. “He had her flattened like an accordion.” Footage of the home shows mud and scratches from where the pig rampaged through.
The owner of the pig apparently approached Goldstein and her family while searching for the beast. He threatened to shoot Goldstein and the family if they harmed the animal.
Animal control officials shot the pig with a nonlethal pepper ball, but it ran away. It then returned on Tuesday and tried to attack Goldstein’s boyfriend. By Wednesday, the pig was returned to its owner and placed in a secure pen. (RELATED: Deer Crashes Into Minnesota Butcher Shop That Doesn’t Sell Venison Meat, Leaves Through Broken Door)
But it turns out the pig’s motivations were quite different to what you’d imagine.
“The pig was not trying to attack anyone. It knocked a person down, and began acting like a dog will sometimes do on a person’s leg. It wasn’t being aggressive in a way that it was trying to hurt anyone,” Llano County sheriff chief deputy Brad Evans told the outlet.