Man uses pigs to trash own house

Police in Clackamas County are looking for a man they say locked three live pigs in his house in the hopes that they would trash the place. All because he was upset the home went into foreclosure.

Detective Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said deputies are trying to find 33-year-old Shane Lovett.

Lovett bought a home on SE Wildcat Mountain Drive in Eagle Creek a few years ago. In January the house went into foreclosure. Neighbors told police that Lovett was extremely distraught over the the situation. He apparently told several that he had put the animals inside the house over a week ago and even joked about the fact that they did not have any water.



When deputies responded to complaints about the pigs, the inside and outside of the home were trashed.

Thomas Getten, an animal rescue expert from Estacada, was called to try and rescue the pigs. He was able to coax them out of the house with some food. He said that the three pigs were a little dehydrated but otherwise doing fine.

Throughout the whole ordeal, the pigs remained in the house even though they had a way to get out. The back door to the home had been broken out but the pigs wouldn't jump the few feet to the patio below.

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