GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The animals at the Rumbaugh residence along Marsh Creek Road in Cumberland Township are used to a feast, but now the family is dealing with a different kind of pig out.
"He's hard to catch, he's not even greased," Chelsea Rumbaugh said.
Rumbaugh brought home a new porker on Friday.
Kevin Bacon's former family decided he was too big to feed.
"They had bought him thinking he would be a small house pig," Rumbaugh said.
Things got off on the right hoof.
"[The other animals] loved Kevin," she said. "They were climbing all around him."
Soon, an unruly Kevin thought he needed six degrees of separation and made an escape into the woods.
On Saturday morning, Kevin was inside his pen when he decided to "kick off his Sunday shoes" and "cut loose." The 197-pound pig knocked out a post to get free.
"We got a call from the campground across the street and they said 'Hey, we've got your pig walking around,'" Rumbaugh said. "That's really what started the search."
The family scoured the paths just off the property, finding Kevin's footprints along the way.
They fear he could be hurt by a predator or a hunter who might mistake their pet for prey.
"Unfortunately they might not know the difference between a wild pig and Kevin," Rumbaugh said. "We don't want him to end up on someone's dinner table."
Meanwhile, the Rumbaughs have set the table for Kevin, leaving out ample food and flowers for him to nibble.
They've lined the paths on the property with corn, hoping to draw him in.
They spotted their spotted friend several times, but he's keeping his snout out of the pen, preferring the life of a free-range pig.
The Rumbaughs are confident they'll coral him soon.
"We have all of the right things in place, we just need a smidgen of cooperation from Kevin Bacon," Rumbaugh said.
There's a trail of food in the pen and the door is open as this family hopes to bring home Mr. Bacon.