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Officers lure escaped pigs with Doritos and Cheetos

By Ben Hooper
Animal Control officers in Texas used Cheetos and Doritos to lure a family of escaped pigs. Photo courtesy of Cedar Park Police
1 of 3 | Animal Control officers in Texas used Cheetos and Doritos to lure a family of escaped pigs. Photo courtesy of Cedar Park Police

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July 6 (UPI) -- Animal Control officers in Texas said they captured a family of escaped pigs by luring them with some Doritos and Cheetos snacks.

Cedar Park Police said Animal Control Supervisor Lacey Clemons and Animal Control Officer Amber Smith responded when a mother pig and her piglets escaped from a barn Friday and wandered about a mile to the Ranch Trails neighborhood of Cedar Park.

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Clemons and Smith used the snacks they had on hand in their cars, Cheetos and Doritos, to lure the porcine fugitives to a patrol vehicle.

Clemons drove the piglets back to the barn in her vehicle, but the 600-pound mama pig was too large to get into the car, so Smith used the salty snacks to entice the mother pig to walk the mile back to the barn.

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