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On 12/1/2014 LipstickDiva said:

On 12/1/2014 happy housewife said:

On 12/1/2014 Caravaggio said:

They have the same emotional brain capacity as a dog we just disregard that to murder and eat them. And just because he is not a small one doesn't mean he is not cute.

I grew up on a pig farm - there is absolutely nothing about these filthy creatures that is cute. Good Heavens!

Pigs are wise ... and clean

Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

Here's the dirt on pigs: They are perhaps the smartest, cleanest domestic animals known - more so than cats and dogs, according to some experts. But pigs don't have sweat glands, so they roll around in the mud to stay cool. A sign of their cleverness came from experiments in the 1990s. Pigs were trained to move a cursor on a video screen with their snouts and used the cursor to distinguish between scribbles they knew and those they were seeing for the first time. They learned the task as quickly as chimpanzees.

Pigs roll around in and EAT their own excrement - they are certainly not CLEAN. Get off the internet and go to a farm and look at and smell some pigs. Everything you read on the internet is not always true.

[HisElk]

On 12/1/2014 happy housewife said:

On 12/1/2014 LipstickDiva said:

On 12/1/2014 happy housewife said:

On 12/1/2014 Caravaggio said:

They have the same emotional brain capacity as a dog we just disregard that to murder and eat them. And just because he is not a small one doesn't mean he is not cute.

I grew up on a pig farm - there is absolutely nothing about these filthy creatures that is cute. Good Heavens!

Pigs are wise ... and clean

Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

Here's the dirt on pigs: They are perhaps the smartest, cleanest domestic animals known - more so than cats and dogs, according to some experts. But pigs don't have sweat glands, so they roll around in the mud to stay cool. A sign of their cleverness came from experiments in the 1990s. Pigs were trained to move a cursor on a video screen with their snouts and used the cursor to distinguish between scribbles they knew and those they were seeing for the first time. They learned the task as quickly as chimpanzees.

Pigs roll around in and EAT their own excrement - they are certainly not CLEAN. Get off the internet and go to a farm and look at and smell some pigs. Everything you read on the internet is not always true.

Apparently, with the source I provided, you chose not to take the time to read it. Believe what you want.

[occasionalrain]

Any animal or person kept in a pen and given nothing but garbage to eat would be filthy. It says more about the people confining the poor animal in a pen forced to live in his waste than the it does the pig.

[Lucky Charm]

On 12/1/2014 occasional rain said:

Any animal or person kept in a pen and given nothing but garbage to eat would be filthy. It says more about the people confining the poor animal in a pen forced to live in his waste than the it does the pig.

Spot on.

[colliegirls]

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

[september]

On 12/1/2014 colliegirls said:

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

Lol! I'm not...but I once had neighbors who kept a pot-bellied pig in their home. Yes, it was house-broken. But if they had chosen to fly with it, I can't say it was plane-broken.

[KathyPet]

On 12/1/2014 colliegirls said:

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

My thought exactly!

[issiestorm]

On 12/1/2014 KathyPet said:

On 12/1/2014 colliegirls said:

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

My thought exactly!

And why not? Once a thread is started it frequently takes on a life of its own. And as regards the 'pigs on a plane' argument, I've done a lot of flying and would prefer pigs to some people!

[HisElk]

On 12/1/2014 Issiestorm said:

On 12/1/2014 KathyPet said:

On 12/1/2014 colliegirls said:

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

My thought exactly!

And why not? Once a thread is started it frequently takes on a life of its own. And as regards the 'pigs on a plane' argument, I've done a lot of flying and would prefer pigs to some people!

The thread went off topic when HH posted that pigs are filthy. I provided a source as to where I got my information earlier. Threads do often go off topic.

Issiestorm, I said the same thing in one of my posts with regard to your second sentence.

[issiestorm]

On 12/1/2014 HisElk said:

On 12/1/2014 Issiestorm said:

On 12/1/2014 KathyPet said:

On 12/1/2014 colliegirls said:

OMG, now we are going to argue about farm animals???

My thought exactly!

And why not? Once a thread is started it frequently takes on a life of its own. And as regards the 'pigs on a plane' argument, I've done a lot of flying and would prefer pigs to some people!

The thread went off topic when HH posted that pigs are filthy. I provided a source as to where I got my information earlier. Threads do often go off topic.

Issiestorm, I said the same thing in one of my posts with regard to your second sentence.

I re-read the thread and saw what you posted HE. But don't bother trying to educate happy housewife. It's a lost cause. And I don't believe for one minute that she grew up on a pig farm. You really posted some good information though. I've often heard that there's a lot more to pigs than most people are aware of.