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Timmy

Timmy

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Pigs are getting some bad press.

This is a shame; where would we be without the pig?
Think of a world without:

BLTs
English breakfasts
Animal Farm
Charlotte’s Web
Miss Piggy
Pigging out
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
Porky’s (OK, I can imagine a world without Porky’s)
The pork sword
The Three Little Pigs
This little piggy went to market
Crackling
John Elliot’s catch cry!
Babe
Razorback
Spider pig
Green Eggs and Ham

I’m sure there’s more.

Praise be to the pig.
 
Jamon y queso sandwich is a staple in Peru. Jamon being the ham.
Can't have a Club Sandwich without the bacon entry.
Pork barrel.
Hmmmmm, bacon!
Love you long time piggy!
 
The big bad wolf said I am going to huff, and I am going to Puff, and, shove off!!!! said the little pig, or I will sneeze on you.
 
Yet we give pigs a bad name. When we describe someone as being porcine it means we don't like them much.

Christ didn't help when in Gadarenes he cast the demons out of a mad guy into a herd of swine and they all jumped over a cliff and were drowned. (Mark 5:1-20) PETA wasn't around in those days.
 
Pigs may be the smartest domestic animal.

Intelligence research was done with pigs in the 1990s. One of the experiments was to train the pigs to move the cursor on a video screen with their snouts. When the pigs used the cursors again, they were able to distinguish between the scribbles they already knew, and the scribbles they were seeing for the first time. The pigs learned this skill as fast as the chimpanzees.

All species of pig are smarter than dogs, and capable of abstract representation. “They can hold an icon in their mind, and remember it at a later date,” says Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University, who discovered that pigs dominate at video games with joy sticks. Curtis goes on to say, “Pigs are able to focus with an intensity I have never seen in a chimp.”

Other tests were done where the pigs were taught the meaning of simple words and phrases. Several years later, the instructions were repeated, and the pigs still remembered what to do. The same thing was done with different objects placed in front of them. They were taught to jump over, sit by, or retrieve the item. Three years later, they could distinguish between the items.

The studies also showed:

  • Pigs lead complex social lives that behaviorists once believed to be true only of primates.
  • Mother pigs sing to their piglets while they are nursing.
  • They excel at video games that would be hard for a young child, and sometimes better than the primates.
  • Pigs dream.
  • Pigs have a good sense of direction, and can find their way home from long distances.
  • They learn from watching one another.
  • Pigs outsmart each other. One will often follow another pig to food before grabbing it away from him, and the pig who was tricked will change behaviors to reduce how many times it is tricked.
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http://mammals.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_intelligent_pig
 
Hey Tink, you would have seen the latest cartoon of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet walking home;

"As the two friends wandered through the snow on their way home, Piglet grinned to himself, thinking how lucky he was to have a best friend like Pooh.

Pooh thought to himself: If the pig sneezes, he's f**ken dead. "
 
Poor piggy.
 

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:eek: Is that real? Pig flu would be the least of your concerns if you stumbled across that in the bush.
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Porky ... this massive feral pig was shot on a Pilbara cattle station by pastoralist John Anick / News Limited newspaper

If you thought that one was big, try this on for size. This one is surely a fake.
 

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