This little piggy gets to stay home

By Times Staff Writer
Published October 24, 2007

BROOKSVILLE -- She's smarter than the family dog and is in no way headed to the breakfast table although her name is Baycon.

And now the potbellied pig is officially allowed to stay in her Hernando County home.

County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agreed that Baycon can live with her doting family even though county rules classify her as a farm animal and thus not allowed in a residential zoning district.

For Patricia Dorvee, Baycon is part of the family.

Baycon has been with the Dorvees in their Weeki Wachee Acres home since she was a piglet and has a special kinship with their mentally challenged child. Dorvee told commissioners that she has been the subject of false accusations from one neighbor and that one of those complaints alerted the county to the pig.

Commissioners fought back the pig puns as they debated the case. Commissioner Dave Russell finally made the motion to "allow the porker in question to stay put."

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