Those who say, “When pigs fly,” to predict that something will never happen, may want to think twice after a pair of pigs wandered close to Wiscasset Municipal Airport on Nov. 28. 

The two, a male and a female, turned up Friday afternoon eating apples in a Chewonki Neck Road yard opposite the airport, flight instructor Ann Walko of Westport Island said.

“They had their snouts in the snow,” Walko said.

She and two other pilots, along with an airport employee and Walko’s husband Mike Muchmore, rounded up the pigs and shooed them back to their home down the road, Walko said.

“Everything turned out great. No bacon,” Walko said Sunday, two days after the successful effort.

She described the pigs as big — about waist-high to her — and very docile.

She called the Lincoln County Communications Center after spotting them; the pigs were already back home when Wiscasset police arrived, Walko said.

Walko left her black Lab Jasek in the car while the roundup was under way because she wasn’t sure he would help matters, she said.

In addition to being a pilot, Walko is a dog instructor at Positively Best Friends in Edgecomb, but had no herding background to call upon Friday.

“This was a new experience for me,” she said.