Either The Girls at Colby Are Letting Themselves Go, Or...

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE — Colby College campus has had a new visitor at large, recently, and he isn’t paying tuition.

The uninvited guest is a medium-sized, charcoal-gray pig, presumed to be male, that has been on the loose on campus for more than a week.

“It’s currently a free-range pig. I spotted it a couple of days ago, grazing on grass on the girls’ softball field, when I drove past on my bicycle. It’s about the size of an English Springer Spaniel,” said Colby director of communications Steve Collins, Wednesday.The pig is believed to be a Vietnamese Potbelly, he said.

The pig was last under human control when Colby students, who were not identified, had taken the pet pig to a campus cookout, where it slipped its leash, Collins said.

According to Collins, some of Colby’s grounds crew had collaborated with the animal control officer in Waterville, to set up traps on campus, in an attempt catch the free-roaming hog.

Waterville police Sgt. Joseph Shepherd said the pig has been on the loose at Colby for more than a week.
Colby’s assistant grounds supervisor Peter MacDonald confirmed that attempts to catch the elusive pig by Wednesday, had failed.

“We tried to catch it a couple of ways, like physically chasing after him and using a net to throw over him. That didn’t work," MacDonald said. "He is very friendly, but as soon as you think about moving, he shoots right away. We actually had him eating out of our hands.”

I guess all you can say is, "You know you've gone to school in Maine for to long when you bring a live pig to your cookout."