To say no to visiting pigs for Christmas??

Ffs

I distinctly remember a Dutch film where the farmer's wife was eaten by pigs.

I feel so sorry for the poor pigs. Your sister needs a reality check, they are not toys!

Mumsnet is batshit tonight

Come on landlord! Promise you’ll tell us what they say PigAuntie?

@Didiplanthis

The other one looked utterly terrifying - think pigs head on lord of the flies - as to improve their spotting/markings as piglets and make more money they often have wild boar blood introduced. He was huge and hairy with the most enormous razor sharp tusks, and even though he was the softest thing ever he regularly accidently sliced open a bit of human leg coming for a head rub. The children NEVER went in with them as their tusks were child face/eye height. And the non scary looking one would bite.

This sounds like the premise for a horror movie!!!!!!!!

Omg it is Thelma and Louise!!!!!!!!! OP please keep us posted!!!!!!!

Thelma and Louise

thought this was a typo for PILS!!!

This is Mumsnet, so 9 times out of 10, it would have been.

Thought this was a typo for PILS!!! Woswer

And I initially thought OP was referring to her in laws when taking about pigs over at Xmas- thought we were in for a good one.

But now very sad and worried about said real pigs

Yes please update us PigAuntie as am now worried about the fate of the poor pigs!

I thought the thread about the high chair was peak batshit for Christmas threads but no..... aibu is the thread that keeps giving.
No to pigs as visitors, unless in blankets and oven ready and a wtf to keeping pigs in a house with only a patio. I can't imagine any landlord going for it.

We had micro pigs. We knew they wouldn't be micro and we took them on as they hadn't sold when tiny so then wouldn't sell as no longer super cute. We also live on a farm. With a defra number and other animals. When they eventually got old and ill and were PTS (prematurely as LOTS of health issues from very dodgy breeding) the man who collected the dead pig said he was the biggest pig he had ever seen - the man who collects pigs all day. The other one looked utterly terrifying - think pigs head on lord of the flies - as to improve their spotting/markings as piglets and make more money they often have wild boar blood introduced. He was huge and hairy with the most enormous razor sharp tusks, and even though he was the softest thing ever he regularly accidently sliced open a bit of human leg coming for a head rub. The children NEVER went in with them as their tusks were child face/eye height. And the non scary looking one would bite. Most of the 'small' parents you see have been starved to stunt growth. If you feed pigs properly they grow. We now have pure bread kune kune pigs who are maybe 2/3 the size of our 'micros' and are still big animals to handle.

Yes please so I can see some photos

It's your house and if you don't want other people's pets in it then they shouldn't be trying to bring them.

At work I get to see copies of old 'Leases' from the 60s and 70s. A lot of them have a clause saying something along the lines of 'it's forbidden to erect any x, y, z at the premises with pigsty being one of the forbidden structures! These would be three bed houses with a back and front garden, so similar to your sisters house. Doubt any Council would allow it today either!

Er you know this will get picked up by daily mail or similar if it hasn’t already?!

Hopefully I’ve cropped her name out properly so she doesn’t get hate mail - but this is one of the messages - I haven’t made this up! I’m not sure I have that much imagination to be honest!!

Proper batshit. Does she really believe such a thing exists as micro pigs? Bonkers. You can’t just trek pigs round like you can dogs, it’s illegal.

They will destroy grass/gardens, it will be a mud pit within 2 weeks. My horse is castrated, doesn’t stop him shagging every mare he can mount. Apparently pigs have corkscrew shape penises. Fun fact her dc will soon learn.

Of course the landlord will say no unless they’re a total idiot How could she imagine that a ll would agree to this when most won’t agree to a dog?

When I read the title I thought the OP was saying she didn’t want to visit pigs over Christmas (as in, her DH had booked a farm stay for all of them and she didn’t want to go). But it’s worse. Much worse.

My DH volunteers three times a week at an animal rescue. They get a lot of cats and dogs and other common domestic animals but also larger animals like horses. These pigs are going to end up in a place like that. The SIL thinks “dog beds in the conservatory” will be enough??? They will destroy the conservatory, not sleep in it.

I’m keeping everything crossed that the landlord firmly says “no bloody way”. Many landlords don’t even allow dogs these days so I’m hopeful that the landlord will refuse two pigs.

I know fuck all about pigs and even I know that:
a) they eat a lot & make the corresponding amount of crap (although they're clean!).
b) they have a terrifying bite, can be extremely dangerous and can and will kill and eat people.
c) micropigs are never "micro" and daddy pig in that pic is not daddy pig.
d) YANBU to say no. Your sister is a selfish, short sighted fool with no concern for the animals. Hopefully the Landlord kyboshes her ridiculous idea.

We bought "micro pigs", boy and girl. They make excellent rotavators, perfect any time we wanted the sheep field or garden reseeded. George was the height of my knee and extremely grumpy if nobody had a carrot in their hand. Jayne was lovely and used to wander in and out of the kitchen during the day and lie in the garden (she could open the gate. Luckily we knew rightly they would be massive, they were bigger than our previous pot bellied. They lived about 10 years, George also hated our seed salesman so we always knew when he was in the yard from the ruckus. I would never want them in an ordinary house with no garden they are hard work and cover a lot of ground if they decide to do a runner oh and they can swim unlike Dh who had to chase George down a river.

Not sure why I’ve blacked out people’s names

But so relieved you've blacked out the pigs' names of course.

No way will landlord agree to pigs 😂

There are no such things as mico pigs. Your sister in law is mad.