BOSTON (WHDH) - A husband and wife were attacked and injured, the husband seriously, by their pot-belly pig at their farm in Townsend Tuesday evening.
Police said they initially responded to the farm on Fitchburg Road just before 6 p.m. after a woman was injured. Shannon Hernandez, 38, was taken to Leominster Hospital with lacerations on her body.
Less than two hours later, at around 7:30 p.m., police said they were called to the same farm after her husband Jose, 50, was attacked by the same pot-belly pig.
He was seriously injured and rushed to UMass Memorial Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
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His wife says she was separating her boar, Boss, from the female pigs at the time of her attack. She says this type of behavior is typical for an in-tact boar, and they can get aggressive and edgy around females in heat. That’s why, she says, she was ready with a shovel at the time of the attack.
Shannon Hernandez has since been released from the hospital, and says her husband is in stable condition after the boar punctured two main arteries in his right hand.
“Boss” has been quarantined pending further evaluation by the State Department of Agriculture, Townsend Animal Control and other officials.
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