Margaret Neville and the Winged Boar

Does anyone know why exactly the effigy of Margaret, Countess of Oxford (née Neville) had a winged boar at her feet? She was Anne's aunt, but I very much doubt the boar is referring to Richard in any way - considering where her and her husband's loyalties lay. So far I haven't come up with any other explanation for the boar either, though.
The tombs were destroyed, so the effigies only survive as a copy of an original drawing. My scanner isn't working, but I can try and take a photo of that image tomorrow, in case anyone hasn't seen it and would like to take a look.
Pansy

Re: the Countess of Oxford and the boar The blue boar was a badge of the Earls of Oxford. There are stories that after Bosworth white boars on inn signs were hastily painted blue. Since the Earl of Oxford of that time was a Lancastrian supporter, changing white boars to blue boars permitted inkeepers to avoid the appearance of having now-inconvenient political views. Kay Wade

Kay wrote:"The blue boar was a badge of the Earls of Oxford. There are stories that after Bosworth white boars on inn signs were hastily painted blue. Since the Earl of Oxford of that time was a Lancastrian supporter, changing white boars to blue boars permitted inkeepers to avoid the appearance of having now-inconvenient political views."
Thanks, Kay! I had no idea - I only knew about the star badge. James Ross's biography of the 13th Earl seems to imply that the blue boar was adopted by him, which seems a bit odd...
The effigy of the Earl himself has some kind of a stag at his feet, though: definitely not a boar.
Pansy

Hi Pansy and Kay,
Have looked up the Earl of Oxford on wikipedia and there is a coat of arms showing a rampant boar supporting one side of the arms and a winged mythological creature with a human face supporting the other.So perhaps the Countess's boar is a combination of both.Wings meaning swiftness and protection and boar standing for courage and fierceness in battle.
Kathryn x