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We don't rent pigs, but....
We don't rent pigs, but sometimes one shows up uninvited. My goats were very upset.
I think we've located the owner. It's not Yarrow, although she has one that looks REMARKABLY like this one. Is Harold home, Yarrow?
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11/10/11, 07:42 AM
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Awwww, he looks lost,got his little bucket out looken for a handout.
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11/10/11, 08:17 AM
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I think the little bucket was to lure him away from the goats LOL
Well fed pb there LOL
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11/10/11, 09:04 AM
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Trick or Treat was LAST month!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11/10/11, 09:13 AM
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Aw, he's so sweet!
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11/10/11, 04:30 PM
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So cute!
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11/10/11, 09:14 PM
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This turned into a HUGE saga.
Turns out she's a female. Last night, she was headed for the highway, so I lured her back with graham crackers and put her in a horse pen. This morning, she was missing from the horse pen, but back next to the Goat House, terrorizing them by lying still and grunting gently. I put out feed and water again.
Made some phone calls to folks that have PB pigs, but theirs (Elanor and Franklin) were accounted for. That lady called everyone she had given piglets to last year, and all offspring were accounted for.
When I fed the goats this afternoon, the piggie was not in attendance. I heard dogs about a half mile away carrying on, so when I went to town to the post office, I stopped at that neighbor, but didn't see the pig, and no one was home.
This evening, at goat milking time, I thought I heard an owl.... or a pig.... but realized it was someone hollering HELLO?? The local police. "You missing a pot bellied pig?" I told the story of who the pig did NOT belong to, gave them some cookies to use for bait, and promised to come help when I got finished with the goats.
Looooong story short, the animal control folks from town have not worked with pigs. It took about half an hour, but they did get the pig in a trailer and she's been hauled off to a safe temporary home while the officers attempt to locate her owner. The police suspect she was dumped by someone who can't afford to feed her.
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11/10/11, 09:53 PM
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Hmmm....a free christmas ham? I'd take her.
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11/10/11, 10:13 PM
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Quote:
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Hmmm....a free christmas ham? I'd take her.
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Too much marbling, I think!
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11/10/11, 10:13 PM
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Do PB pigs have good bacon?
Hmmmmm
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11/10/11, 10:34 PM
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Awww..poor piggy! But that being said all I can think of is bacon lol!
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11/10/11, 10:44 PM
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I promise that I'll give it a nice warm home.
It's all Nickie's fault.
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11/11/11, 01:59 AM
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It seems SO bizarre to homesteading folks that a pig would be dumped off because people couldn't feed it. To most people here, you simply feed it until it's ready to feed YOU! Who here would dump any animal, let alone a walking feast? *lol*
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11/11/11, 05:13 PM
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Must be raining pb pigs from coast to coast!
Just read this thread - Open letter to the jerk that dumped his dog by my gate
posted in Pets open letter... and now this! I thought the pb pig fad was over decades ago - in the SF Bay area they were sold at flea markets & everyplace as the "perfect" miniature pet. Rubes would take home a piglet believing they were full size. (Can't tell you how many ruined back yards left behind by renters we would get calls about when I was doing landscaping. They looked like bomb sites.)
I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for pork chops on the hoof from now on! 
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11/11/11, 07:03 PM
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That's no yearling. That's why pb aren't as good as regular pigs, they grow lots slower. Man, if I was closer, she'd have a place to come!
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11/11/11, 07:29 PM
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Anybody hear about the brain disease in PB pigs that looks a lot like Cruetzfeld-Jacobs?
Mm-mm good!
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11/11/11, 09:26 PM
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Just don't eat the brain LOL!
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11/11/11, 09:27 PM
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11/11/11, 09:32 PM
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Story I read somewhere:
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A couple taught at some New England college. During the summer break they would rent the same cottage from a local farmer. It had a pig pen and a piglet would come with the rental. They said, "Isn't it wonderful. We have full use of the pig during summer to eat fallen fruit and kitchen trimming and leftovers and the farmer will still give us back what we rented the pig for".
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11/11/11, 11:24 PM
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Neighbor found a momma and son running around last winter. I'm not sure what he finally did with them. Man, did they ever scream when he caught them.
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