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Pigs as pets... not a good idea!

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From: Silvasurfa
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:40
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But then again, when was the last time you saw a petfreak with a good
idea?

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veroniqueunique@yahoo.com (Veronique) wrote in message news:<3c499a9e.0302242057.b88e975@posting.google.com>...
> outlaw@childresstx.com (Jader) wrote in message news:<6db3a21a.0302241534.733a92cf@posting.google.com>...

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>> > I had some cute lil piggies too.
>> > They rooted up $2500 worth of underground plumbing lines,
destroyed
>> > $400 worth of fencing, and ate a kitten, in the span of a single
>> > month.
>> 
>> Ate a kitten? Ate A Kitten?
>> 
>> I knew the hog penchant for getting out of the pen and eating
baybees,
>> but ATE A KITTEN?

>Pigs will mouth anything new that comes into their pen, sometimes
they
>do more than mouth. I've lost a yearling goat, a rooster, and a 10
>week old Siamese kitten I brought home from the pound. The goat and
>rooster must have gotten into their pen to get into the free feeder
>full of corn (there was close to 500 pounds in there so it wasn't
like
>the pigs were hungry!), and I have no idea how the kitten got in
>there. These were just 180-220 pound hogs, not even close to what
>they'd be at maturity.

>Those two will lose those stars in their eyes in about 5 months, when
>the destructive oinkers turn everything they own inside out. They're
>not exactly the ideal yuppie pet.

>Jade

Pet owners never seem capable of working things out using their
brains... they always gotta go for trial and error don't they? Can
that be a pet... can this be a pet? It isn't a pet, it is an
omnivorous food animal who given the chance would eat you as happily
as you would eat it.
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From: eric.son@bigpond.com (Silvasurfa)
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Subject: Pigs as pets... not a good idea!
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