Diane Warren Adopts Pig Seen Running Loose in West Hollywood, Vows to Give It a ‘Really Good Home’ Angel SaundersFri, August 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM UTC 0 Diane Warren attends the 33rd Annual Race to Erase MS Gala in Los Angeles on June 5, 2026Credit: LISA O'CONNOR / AFP via Getty Diane Warren adopted a pig named Wilbur after he went viral for running loose in West Hollywood Warren has a history of rescuing animals, including a cow that escaped a slaughterhouse in 2021 “Get the pig.
Diane Warren Adopts Pig Seen Running Loose in West Hollywood, Vows to Give It a ‘Really Good Home’

Angel SaundersFri, August 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM UTC
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Diane Warren attends the 33rd Annual Race to Erase MS Gala in Los Angeles on June 5, 2026Credit: LISA O'CONNOR / AFP via Getty -
Diane Warren adopted a pig named Wilbur after he went viral for running loose in West Hollywood
Warren has a history of rescuing animals, including a cow that escaped a slaughterhouse in 2021
“Get the pig. Save the pig,’” the songwriter said after seeing Wilbur on the news
It’s “Times Like This” we all remember why we love Diane Warren.
On Thursday, Aug. 20, the Oscar-nominated songwriter, 69, met a pig named Wilbur face-to-face for the first time since the animal went viral after being seen running through the streets of West Hollywood over the weekend.
As Warren arrived at the West L.A. Animal Shelter, ABC 7 had the cameras rolling.
“Oh my God. You’re so cute,” the musician told the piglet, who got his moniker from the children’s book Charlotte’s Web, as she approached his cage.
“Look, you’re gonna have a really good home,” she added. “What are you doing running around Hollywood like that?”
Because Wilbur became an overnight sensation after the farm animal was seen running the big city streets, there was lots of interest from residents wanting to adopt him. To help find his new family, the animal shelter he was taken to held a silent auction.
Marcia Zwilling, managing director of the Diane Warren Foundation, placed the winning bid for the Grammy winner.
“Diane saw the news clips and saw the little pig running in West Hollywood, and she just called me and said, ‘Please get the pig, get the pig!’ ” Zwilling told the news outlet in an on-camera interview.
“‘Get the pig. Save the pig,’ ” she recalled Warren telling her.
Wilbur’s new home will be a seven-acre animal sanctuary in Malibu, and the pig may even be getting a new name since Warren already owns a “Wilbur.” And it’s not the first time she’s rescued an animal in need.
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In 2021, the “Superwoman” artist saved another summer runaway — a cow that made headlines for escaping from a Southern California slaughterhouse.

Diane Warren adopts pig seen running loose through West HollywoodCredit: ABC7/YouTube
After contacting the city of Pico Rivera, Warren arranged to have the cow sent to Farm Sanctuary — a nonprofit animal welfare organization with a location in Acton, Calif., — she and city manager Steve Carmona told the at the time.
Warren told the outlet that when she saw the animal on the news, “crying out” as wranglers tried to catch her, that she “couldn’t unsee that.”
“This isn’t my first cow I’ve saved,” she told the AP. “But this feels like a special cow. Because this was that one. So it’s almost like she represents all cows wanting to be free.”
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Warren’s affinity for animals doesn’t stop at those typically found on farms.
In June, Taylor Dayne spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about Warren’s quirky habit of showing up with a bird on her shoulder.
“I’m like, ‘Who the F shows up with a bird on their shoulder constantly?’” Dayne, 64, told PEOPLE of Warren’s love of birds. “I’m like, ‘How do you go to lunch with that?’ She goes, ‘Shut up, Taylor.’ Like, ‘I’m going to lunch with the bird.’ Animals always came first with Diane, so I kind of got it. And then she would never clean up her studio.”
“There’s a million stories about Diane, but her humanity is always animals first and humans later. And therapy,” she added.
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