{"id":1030787,"date":"2022-03-22T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/pigs-chase-off-pen-invading-bear-outside-connecticut-home\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:41:50","slug":"pigs-chase-off-pen-invading-bear-outside-connecticut-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/pigs-chase-off-pen-invading-bear-outside-connecticut-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs chase off pen-invading bear outside Connecticut home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pigs-chase-off-pen-invading-bear-outside-Connecticut-home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7yH3ntLrL5c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WILD VIDEO: Pigs fight off bear in New Milford\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7yH3ntLrL5c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Connecticut woman&#8217;s security camera was recording when a bear entered the pen holding her two pigs &#8212; and ended up being chased away by the scrappy swine.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Shaw&#8217;s Ring camera captured footage showing the bear entering the pig pen outside of her New Milford home.\n<\/p>\n<p>The video shows one of the pigs, Mary, head-butting the bear into a fence, before being joined by fellow pig Hamlet, who charged at the bear until it fled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very proud of them because Hammy, the little one especially, he&#8217;s afraid of his own shadow and the way he came charging out when he seen Mary tussling with the bear,&#8221; Shaw told WVIT-TV. &#8220;He was like &#8216;oh no, no way, get out.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaw said the pigs were not injured in the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not even a scratch,&#8221; Shaw told the News Times. &#8220;I&#8217;m still blown away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaw said Mary and Hamlet are now getting extra watermelon and Pop Tarts, their favorite treats.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 (UPI) &#8212; A Connecticut woman&#8217;s security camera was recording when a bear entered the pen holding her two pigs &#8212; and ended up being chased away by the scrappy swine. Rebecca Shaw&#8217;s Ring camera captured footage showing the bear entering the pig pen outside of her New Milford home. The video shows one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}