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Only in Mastic.
So says the anonymous motorist who recorded a big white pig wandering the neighborhood streets of Mastic Beach Sunday night.
It turns out this poor little piggy has a name: Daisy. And she had sauntered away from her owner’s place.
Fortunately, the white swine made its way into the backyard of Stephanie Christine Wnek’s Mastic Beach home on Stackyard Drive. She took a photo of Daisy and posted it on Facebook, including a share to the “Mastic, Shirley, Mastic Beach our community page.”
The comments rolled in. Some expressed genuine concern for the pig’s well being. Others quipped that the sight of the pig made their mouth water.
Out for a stroll
Meanwhile, Wnek fed Daisy and tended to her as best she could. “[The pig is in] my yard at the moment but needs to go asap,” she commented on Facebook.
“I would take him home in a heartbeat!!” swooned Amanda Imperati in the comments area of Wnek’s Facebook post.
A couple of hours past, and then in the midnight hour, the owner, Carol Bailey, who lives on Mayfield Drive about three-quarters of a mile away, came forward.
Arrangements were made for Daisy to be picked up and returned home on Monday.
Before Daisy there was Barney

Long Island has kind of been down this road before in Mastic. Remember Barney the Mastic bull?
Barney was affectionately named by rescue worker while he was on the run in Mastic and Moriches for two months in the summer of 2021. He escaped an animal sacrifice ritual in a Moriches slaughterhouse, before trotting through a residential Mastic neighborhood in the middle of a July day.
Eventually, rescue workers managed to capture Barney and brought him to an animal sanctuary in New Jersey.
Top photo: Daisy the pig managed to wander away from her owner’s home in Mastic Beach and into a neighbor’s backyard about three-quarters of a mile away (Facebook).