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© DPA, AFP/Getty ImagesCanyon County spokesman Joe Decker says the woman was attacked by the pig Thursday morning.
A woman has unknown injuries after she was knocked down and bitten by a pot-bellied pig in Nampa on Thursday morning, Canyon County spokesman Joe Decker said.

The pig escaped from its enclosure on the 3000 block of Karsten Court, he said, but was corralled back onto the property by its owner. That, Decker said, is when it attacked a neighbor who was on the owner's property.

The victim suffered a bite wound and may have sustained additional injuries from the fall.

The owner took the pig to a local veterinarian, and it was euthanized, Decker said. A sheriff's office animal control officer plans to retrieve the animal's head on Friday and take it to the Idaho Department of Agriculture to be tested for rabies.

Because the incident was reported to the sheriff's office via telephone — no officers responded at the time — Decker said the size of the pig and the full extent of the woman's injuries are unknown.