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Pleasanton police search for owner of 200-pound pig dubbed 'Hamrietta'

PIX Now -- Tuesday morning headlines from KPIX newsroom
PIX Now -- Tuesday morning headlines from KPIX newsroom 08:50

PLEASANTON -- Police in Pleasanton are looking for someone in the town who has misplaced a plus-sized porker that officers recently found. 

Police didn't say when they located the large pig, but noted in a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon that the animal -- a female they named "Hamrietta" for the time being -- weighs over 200 pounds and was discovered in the area of Dublin Canyon Road.

"Please help us reunite HAMrietta with her family," the post read. 

Anyone with information about a missing pig is asked to please call Pleasonton PD at (925) 803-7040.  

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