That's one squirrely piece o' pork.

The Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that went AWOL last month from a Colby student's care is still on the loose, despite efforts to capture it.

Never mind that there are a lot of smart people with Ph.Ds at Colby. Evidently, no one's got an advanced degree in Animal Behavior, Porcine Division, or else they might have predicted that old Porky would eventually turn up at Pam Hart's West River Road home this week, snorting and rooting around in the grass.

Hart treated the pig like any normal homeowner would, which is to say she treated it like a cat. She enticed it with cat food, called it a "good pig," said, "here little piggy, here little piggy" and tried to get up close and personal with it.

The pig would have none of it. This is one independent pig, which we must add makes it that much more cat-like. Latest reports have it that the Colby pig with wanderlust had sauntered over to Hart's neighbor's house, where it was likewise welcomed with cat food.

Here's our question: If you were the pig and there were all these nice people feeding you in the Elm City's backyards and saying kind things to you, would you ever want to go home?