Salomey
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Salomey was the pet pig of the Yokums in the comic strip Li'l Abner, by Al Capp. Salomey, likely a pun on "salami" and on "Salome", was cute, lovable, intelligent (often more intelligent than the male Yokums), and treated as part of the Yokum family. She was also the last female of the species Hammus alabammus,"with a zoot snoot and a drape shape," which led to a number of story arcs.
One such story was the 1942 kidnapping of Salomey by "the world's greatest sportsman hogbreeder" J. R. Fangsley who wanted to breed Salomey with the last male Hammus alabammus, Boar Scarloff.
In 1947, Salomey was again kidnapped, this time by Bounder J. Roundheels who wanted to "use" Salomey to create a unique dish that would gain him entrance into the Gourmets' Club.
In the 1960s, Salomey traveled to "Boarkley" (Berkeley, California) to undergo her "boar mitzvah" (bar mitzvah). There, she encountered 1960s-era student protesters, who demonstrated under the acronym SWINE: Students Wildly Indignant-about Nearly Everything. Capp received some severe criticism for the series of strips, but stood by his satire of the era's excesses by university students.
