This Little Piggy Finally Goes Home
Jeffrey Jerome, a pig who was banished in 1988 because of city ordinances against keeping pigs, has died after being struck by lightning at a Central Texas farm.
The 1,100-pound pig, who would have been 7 years old in July, made headlines when a state legislator tried to pass a bill making it legal for pigs to live in the city. Jeffrey’s owner, Victoria Herberta, had to give the pig up for adoption to a farm in San Marcos, about 200 miles west of Houston.
“This is terrible,” said Ada Davis, who owns the farm where Jeffrey died Monday. “He was kind of fried. You could tell he had been struck by lightning. He was so afraid of storms.”
Jeffrey’s mother, Priscilla the Swimming Pig, gained fame in 1984 for saving a boy from drowning.
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