"We have possums and raccoons and armadillos and grasshoppers," Margaret Krueger told WKMG-TV. "I don't need a pig."
Krueger said she's had to chase the pig away from her property on more than one occasion.
"I work so hard in my yard and he's here digging every day," Krueger said. "I get my big ol' bamboo stick and run him off, because he just digs everywhere."
Residents said the animal appears to be a potbellied pig rather than a wild boar. They said animal control officials told them that since the pig is apparently a domesticated breed it is likely an escaped or released pet rather than a wild animal.
"I want him gone. I want somebody to give him a nice home," Krueger said.
The pig problem in Clermont is of a different sort than the porcine troubles faced by residents of a neighborhood in nearby Orlando. Avalon Park neighbors said a family of boars have been wandering in from a neighboring reserve and causing yard damage similar to Clermont's potbellied pig, but the more brazen wild animals have also been invading homes.
"They're not afraid of coming in, and they make those huge holes everywhere," Carmen Caraballo said of the Orlando boars.
