Fort Dodge Police Lt. Dennis Quinn got the call.

“They asked me if I could break for a pig,” he said. “There’s a 300-pound pig walking down Seventh Avenue.”

It’s not the usual loose animal call.

“There’s not a whole lot we can do with a pig,” he said.

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen Fort Dodge police Lt. Dennis Quinn follows the roaming pig as she makes her way south on 10th Street North.

Among the first Miss Bacon met on her afternoon roam were construction workers Tyler Reding and Josh Cornwell, both of Waterloo.

“We were taking a break,” Cornwell said. “The boss looked down the street and said, ‘Is that a pig?”

“We were chillin’ on the corner,” Reding said. “She came up to see us.”

The pig, which is naturally quite curious, tried to check out almost everyone she encountered. The two workers passed her inspection on at least one account.

“There was no ham in the car,” Reding said.

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen Raynette McGonegle is all smiles as she take a picture of the unnamed wandering pig she makes her way through McGonegle's front yard. While she was quite concerned about her hostas, the roaming porker passed on the green treat.

“There were a couple of slices of bacon, though,” Cornwell added.

Scott Thompson, who lives along Sixth Street North, suddenly found himself on his lawn with his phone trying to explain to his wife, Laci Thompson, that yes, indeed, there’s a pig on the lawn.

She jokingly encouraged him to give it a smooch.

“I’m not kissing a pig,” he told her. “That’s not happening.”

His reaction was the same as most — surprise.

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen Tyler Reding, of Waterloo, at left, tries to convince a sow roaming the neighborhood that perhaps eating out of the garbage can isn't a good idea as his coworker, Josh Cornwell, also of Waterloo, watches. The two were working at a home along Sixth Avenue North when the escaped pig wandered up during their lunch break.

“Yep,” he said. “That’s a pig wandering down the sidewalk. She’s friendly enough. Even in Iowa you don’t see this every day.”

After apparently getting bored, Miss Bacon decided to go for a walk around the block and nothing, not the police, not her growing legion of fans, not the temptation of the contents of a residential garbage can, could keep her in place.

Quinn had little choice but to simply follow her.

Along the way, she met Raynette and Tom McGonegle.

“We were watching TV,” he said. “I saw the flashing lights and looked outside and saw this pig come trotting down the sidewalk. I looked at my wife and said, ‘Get your camera there’s a pig coming down the sidewalk.”

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen The pig's two hour neighborhood wandering comes to an end early Thursday afternoon as Animal Control officer Blaine Hepp, left, helps get her into a livestock trailer for a trip out of the city limits of Fort Dodge.

She did exactly that and was all smiles as the parading porker marched across her lawn and then turned the corner where a possible incident was avoided by the pig’s dislike of ornamental plant salad.

“He’s going to eat my hostas,” she said.

Quinn was unable to stop the trespass.

“I tried to stop her getting in your yard, but she doesn’t listen very well,” he told McGonegle.

As Miss Bacon continued on her stroll, a plan was conceived by those gathered to keep her interest in one place by shaking an apple tree in the yard of a home in the 1100 block of Sixth Avenue North.

Even though she found herself facing dozens of delicious green apples, she elected to continue to wander after only eating a few.

“So much for that plan,” Quinn said.

Miss Bacon’s piggy parade eventually came to a halt around 2:30 p.m. when volunteers with a livestock trailer showed up. Under her own power, with a tummy full of apples, fauna and adventure, she got in.

Quinn said the sow is owned by Deacon Smith Downs, of 802 Seventh Ave. N. He was given a municipal infraction for raising and keeping livestock in city limits. Quinn said the pig will not be allowed back into town. Smith Downs will have to find a home for it elsewhere.

It was an “interesting” call for the police.

“Just another day,” Quinn said. “Just another day.”