Hi folks,
I want a pig! They seem to be a real competition for us K9s, and they are smart, cute and clean!
now here’s the latest: the BBC reports about a pig able to perform agility tricks. Pig Sue (a boy, mind you!) is a bit slow, but he knows what to do, if he gets a treat.
“A farm owner in Herefordshire has attracted comparisons with the film Babe after teaching her pig to perform agility tasks like a dog.
Unlike the character in Babe, Sue the boar can not round-up sheep, but he can respond to commands like a well trained border collie, his owner said.
Wendy Scudamore, of Barton Hill Animal Centre in Hereford said Sue began copying her dog in agility training.
She said he would “never be a sheep-pig” but hoped he entertained people.
Mocking name
Mrs Scudamore said Sue was reared to be a breeding pig but was named after the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” owing to an unfortunate incident at the vets aged two months when he was accidentally castrated.
She said: “I don’t usually name my pigs until they grow a bit older and develop a character but I thought it would be funny to call him Sue after that.”
Mrs Scudamore breeds New Zealand Kuni Kuni pigs and said she hoped Sue would be an amusing attraction to draw people to her stand at country shows.
She trains him for up to 15 minutes at a time in the back garden and rewards him with little pieces of apple and occasionally, his favourite treats, custard creams.”
Oh I remember when I was a child and wanted a pink pig as a pet, too. š And then I wanted a lamb, and then a goat. But before all of these, I wanted a monkey. I got four monkeys, one goat, and no pig. No lamb either. š
Charity, did you get real monkeys??? I’d love one, too!
But no pig, poor you…
Yes, real monkeys! George, Georgette, Georgie, and Georgina! Ha ha ha ha ha ah ah! They loved me, and I loved them! The only lamb we could find was black, and I wanted a white one! The goat was a bully and attacked me with it’s horns! The pigs…I picked up one and realized that they felt too rough and prickly all over so I changed my mind! I thought they were soft and smooth! š
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