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Article #4Pigs as pets... not a good idea!
From: Silvasurfa
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:40
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? Lifted from another newsgroup... 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>... <space snip> >> > 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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