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Police responding to a complaint about animal noises coming from inside a neighbor’s house found three 200lb pigs trapped inside. And the outside wasn’t such a pretty picture either.

Detective Jim Strovnik of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that Shane Lovett of Eagle Creek had been upset about losing his home in foreclosure. Lovett apparently joked with his neighbors that he’d locked the pigs inside without any food or water in hopes they’d trash the place.

To be sure the property wasn’t an easy resale for his bank, it appears Lovett also damaged the house’s exterior. Large pieces of the house dotted the landscape, along with household garbage and abandoned cars. There was significant damage to the foundation and walls, windows were smashed and a mound of dirt was dumped on the roof. Lovett is a heavy equipment operator by trade, and went so far as to sign his “work” by carving his name into the siding in three-foot-high letters.

The pigs, who had done a fair job of destroying everything inside the house, were hungry and dehydrated but otherwise no worse for their ordeal.

Lovett will most likely face charges of animal cruelty for abandoning the pigs. The police investigation continues, and as yet, no one has been able to reach Lovett for comment or questioning.