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19/08/2007, 12:59 woolybanana (ex tag) Joined on 10/06/2007 vendée Posts 526 Re: Anyone keep pigs as pets? Yes, I'm sure you are right about that. I was reminded of my French neighbours who kept the pig, got to know it, allowed my kids to get to know it, then allowed an 80 year old incompetent to slaughter it, the noise being heard for a considerable distance, including by my kids who cried for days on and off. That is an extreme case I know and I am sure noone would ever want to follow that example. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig    Report

20/08/2007, 10:02 J.R's gone native Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 1,695 Re: Anyone keep pigs as pets? That doesnt sound extreme for my area, pigs and other edible animals are often loved and treated as pets by the children right up to the time of the feast. At least they know exactly where the meat on their plates has come from, and not from a shrink wrapped barquette in a supermarket. Pigs always make a terrible noise when being dispatched until the blood has drained and yes it does travel a long way, it is where the phrase "squealing like a stuck pig" comes from, not a sound that you are likely to hear in Carrefour.    Report

20/08/2007, 11:32 Eco Ferme Joined on 21/07/2007 33 gironde st antoine sur l isle Posts 6 Re: Anyone keep pigs as pets? Good point J.R.  People don't think that the porc in plastic at the supermarket was once a big piggy or the lamb chops were also a cute little lamb.  As for for the 80 year old , he's doing it way it has been done before you were born, he's also been doing it all his life and is an artist. ( and makes a clear job  the abbatoir). The pig also don't have to sit in a lorry for a 1/2 day with no water, and starting to eat each others tails/ears and bleeding everywere. Also do you know the french abbatoir hit the pigs on the head with a sledge hammer.      Report

20/08/2007, 12:38 woolybanana (ex tag) Joined on 10/06/2007 vendée Posts 526 Re: Anyone keep pigs as pets? Yes, I appreciate that home slaughter has these advantages and that there is no harm in bringing up kids to see and understand these things. What I didn't say but thought was implied was that the slaughterman was unable to handle the animal and made a very very slow and bad job of the dispatch, whereas when this has been done for the same family in other years it has been neat and clean and quiet. If he had ever been an artist, those days were long gone unfortunately.The owners of the pig were themselves a little shaken I know. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig    Report

25/04/2008, 0:38 mobey Joined on 18/06/2007 Posts 4 Re: Anyone keep pigs as pets? Im desperately searching for a Kune Kune boar to send my girls to or for him to visit can anyone help    Report

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