To Steal This Piglet ?

[AnneWiddecomesArse]

I've been on a few bike rides with DD and we pass a small farm with a sow and nine little piglets. We've started to take chopped apples for them etc.
Anyway there is this tiny piggy who is obviously the runt. He's the tiniest and gets bullied by the other piglets; and the sow is rather rough/callous with him.
We have a real connection; I just feel it in my water. He looks me straight in the eye and we have empathy.
Can I nick him, stick him in my back pack and keep him ?

I'd post money to the farm after the escape.

[ThePrincessRoyalFiggyrolls]

or infanticide even

[Bumpsadaisie]

Do you think the sow has post natal depression? She might be relieved to know that not all new mums feel love for their offspring immediately. She should try skin to skin with the piglet and I am sure she will develop feelings for him.

[Punkatheart]

I have a chicken who is bullied and I love her the most. Yes irrational, but are so are covert cuddles and kisses with her before she goes to bed. Mind you, her kisses consist of trying to remove freckles from my nose. Love hurts.

[Bumpsadaisie]

PS her behaviour isn't that bad. A friend told me someone up the road from him had a sow and piglets and they went to the field one day to find she had EATEN them all!!!

[Joolyjoolyjoo]

Definitely offer to buy it from the farmer! I love pigs, but the smell puts me off. I think farm animals should always be acquired on a whim. I came home from the pub last Christmas and cheerfully told DH that a man was coming the next day to deliver two goats that I had offered to adopt. My goats never appeared but slightly relieved

[lubeybooby]

Ask the farmer if you can buy it rather than stealing it then posting money. Poor piggy!

[snoopdogg]

Have to confess to still yearning for feral kittens born in our garden last year. We trapped them and their mother with the help of the Cats Protection League but were told they couldn't be domesticated and more than likely were carrying illnesses that would result in them being destroyed.....

In the event, all were healthy and mum neutered then all re-homed as out-door farm cats locally - but they were sooooo pretty

But obv not as cute as the Piggy One

[boswelloxsmith]

if Pig One gets bruised during the Liberation, apply oinkment.

[SarahStratton]

Could we possibly have a photo of the Pigletty One? Pleeeeeeeease

[honeyandsalt]

heheheheheee

I like Wilbur as a name. Or Wilma for a girl.

[AnneWiddecomesArse]

I've never had a pig before. That's the problem. If I had any actual knowledge of pigs or animal husbandry; I'd go for it. But I don't. I only know what I've learned by anedote from farmers over the years. I can tell you when you should mow, bale etc. But no pigs

[throckenholt]

You could offer to have two piglets to fatten up for the winter - takes about 4-5 months. If you have the land it is really not difficult to do. You would need a livestock holding number though.

Not sure you would want to eat your poor cute little runt though. And I am sure you won't want to live with it once it is fully grown - whoever said they get mahoosive are right.

[AuntieMonica]

YYY adopt the pig


but you must promise not to eat it. it has to stay as a pet. forever.

imagine his little piggy face once you've nurtured it and it overhears you on the blower to the butcher...

[knittedbreast]

anne, get off your arse and rescue it now!!!! poor sad lonely thing, but please never eat it

[bewbs123]

wonder if all these people welling up have leather sofas, shoes, chews for the dog from hide , car leather interiors etc etc

[SarahStratton]

Yep. Also a freezer with a pig, a lamb and half a cow in it. Nothing wrong with being soft over a runty piglet though.

[Bumpsadaisie]

Ann

We know nothing about pigs either. Apart from what we have gleaned over the last year from experience.

Ours are just in a stony outcrop fenced off bit in a wood. You just feed them, make sure they have a trough of water and in winter a little hut with straw in.

That's really all there is to it. Plus this is useful.

But you do need to get more than one pig. The little runt will pine away if he is on his own in your field.

[Bumpsadaisie]

PS she will probably happily kill it in a years time once he has grown up and is a massive bolshie stroppy boar.

Our bacon is arriving tomorrow ...

[AnneWiddecomesArse]

I've said I can't cycle. Seriously bad knee and split difference.
Next Door has spoken to the Farmer. I can have piglet for another 14 weeks (for free) and then it's death at 24 weeks (bacon). If I keep him I pay £170 as he stands.

I now own a pig.

[happymole]

Yay!!

It's the perfect pet.

All cute and squidgy when small.

When no longer cute, it becomes a delicious meal.

[LaurieFairyCake]

Fanatstic!

George Clooney had a pig called Max - it's treated just like a dog and poos outside and is completely trained.

Picture of piggy please

[AnneWiddecomesArse]

I can't eat him. Ever.
Next door is helping me set up a paddock for him; he's called Squirt. We're collecting him week on Thursday

I don't need any other licences; my land is already registered as Agricultural. I don't need licences as the piglet is being transported within Parish boundaries. But I need to double check this.

I don't buy piglets willie nillie; I've seen a lot of piglets in my time. But this one was different.

[Bumpsadaisie]

Are you going to leave him with his mother though? He isn't weaned yet is he?

[MsChanandlerBong]

Maybe it is fortuitous that you fell off your bike... I think sorting things out with the farmer legitimately is far better than stealing off with the piglet on the back of your bike in the dead of night!

Now can we start a thread about how horrible it is when pig owners let their pets foul on the streets and not pick it up? Can we? Please?!

[MortaIWombat]

Congratulations on your piglet.