He probably had a swine time while he was away, but Bainbridge Island’s most famous oinker is now back at home on Miller Road.

“The Pig in the Blanket,” a blue fiberglass life-size pig that usually sits next to Miller Road near Day Road, went missing in May.

This porker’s been known to roam, however. The pig has long been the popular target for pranks, and has disappeared for short periods in the past before popping up somewhere unexpected.

Last year, the pig — known as Piggy — went missing for weeks before it was found atop Bainbridge High School.

After the pig’s disappearance more than three months ago, its owners put out a plea via a letter to the editor for Piggy to be returned. Still, no pig.

But on Monday, Piggy finally reappeared: atop the Bainbridge Island sign at Rotary Park just south of the Agate Pass Bridge.

Piggy’s perilous perch atop the welcome sign didn’t last long. A Bainbridge parks employee doing maintenance at the park knocked the pig down and it landed, legs out, facing Highway 305.

When Brian Kelly of the Bainbridge Review stopped by the park moments later to get a photo, the parks employee said he wasn’t aware of the pig’s history on the island — or its wandering ways — and said he was planning on disposing of the pig.

Instead, Kelly offered to take Piggy all the way back home. The two loaded the pig into the back of Kelly’s Ford pickup, and the pig was given a ride back to Miller Road.

“I felt like I was driving a celebrity around,” Kelly said.

Kelly said the pig appeared to be in good shape, generally, but noted that he did see several strands of Mardi Gras-style beads, in Seahawks colors, that had been duct-tapped to the pig’s legs.