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Pig with pink toenails lured from flower bed with dog treats

CLEARWATER, Fla.

A friendly pig with pink toenails was rooting her way through a Florida flower bed when something caught her attention: dog treats.

Turns out the wayward black-and-white oinker has an affinity for canine snacks and was easily lured out of the flowers Monday by animal-control officers.

Clearwater police have posted a photo of the manicured porker on their Facebook page in the hopes that its owner will come forward.

For now the pig is in custody of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Corgi ends up in Honolulu instead of Mississippi

HONOLULU

A dog bound for its new owner in Mississippi ended up in Honolulu instead.

American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely Bethany said the Pembroke Welsh corgi was headed from Seattle to her new owner in Mississippi on Saturday when she made a wrong connection in Dallas. American Airlines says the company is looking at its procedures to figure out how the corgi ended up on the wrong plane.

When breeder Paul Chen was notified that Bethany was misplaced, he reported the dog missing and offered a $1,000 reward.

Bethany left the islands Monday for Dallas. She was at a Texas kennel Tuesday and was expected to fly to her new owner today.

Such mishaps involving dogs and cats are rare. According to U.S. Department of Transportation figures, 28 pets died, 21 were injured and two were lost by airlines in the first nine months of 2015.

A dog died on an American Airlines flight in April. The airline said it couldn’t determine the cause. A cat escaped from the cargo hold of an American plane in February; the cage door had not been secured with zip ties as required.

Beginning in January, airlines will have to disclose more information about shipments of pets, including the number of animals they carried in the previous year.

Conn. city blames squirrels for Christmas tree snafu

NORWALK, Conn.

Squirrels are out to ruin Christmas in one Connecticut city.

Officials in Norwalk are blaming the critters for chewing through the wires on several strands of lights on the Christmas tree outside city hall.

Ken Hughes, Norwalk’s superintendent of parks, tells The Hour that when he tested the lights Monday in advance of tonight’s official tree-lighting ceremony, only about a quarter lit up. That’s when he noticed that a wire near the bottom of the tree had been chewed through.

It took someone in a bucket truck more than three hours to go up and down the tree to find and replace other chewed wires. Fortunately, the strands of lights cost only about $17 each.

Officials figure squirrels are to blame because they can climb high enough.

Associated Press