Top Ten Cute Pigs

Fluffy Pig

A great many sayings associated with pigs is in fact totally inaccurate. Pigs are incredibly social animals and are also very intelligent being as clever as a three or four year old child and even as bright as some primates.

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Kitty Pigs

As an example the phrase, “you are as dirty as a pig” is not at all accurate, pigs are very clean and keep their toilet area away from their eating and sleeping areas. In addition another phrase, “sweating like a pig” is even less accurate pigs have very few sweat glands and control their internal temperature by grouping together when cold and obviously wallowing when hot, mud being the cooling medium of choice.

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Cute Pigs Introducing Hamlet

Cute Pigs – Billy the Pig!

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Bunny with Piglets

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Cute Pigs- Pig Picnic

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Cute Pigs – Tea Cup Pigs

There are about 2 billion pigs in the world and they are quite popular as pets, these can be because of their shape and size such as pot bellied pigs or as the most recent craze in the pet world, the tea cup pig as made famous by Paris Hilton. The problem is that they do not stay at tea cup size, eventually growing to 200lbs or 14 stone. despite being cute they are voracious eaters and inevitably will make quite a mess!

The commitment is long term also as they have a life span of 30 years.

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Cute Pigs – Piggy Mates

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Cute Pigs – Happy as a Pig In Mud

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They have a tremendous sense of smell the round disc of cartilage in the nose and have strong muscles and that let it root around in the soil, their sense of smell and their intelligence means they can be trained to search for wild mushrooms, (truffles) which are of tremendous financial value.

Cute Pigs – Aquarobics for Pigs

Pigs have a good memory when it comes to food sources as in the wild these sources can be sparse or wide spread. They can achieve about 11mph when running, but fortunately they are not aggressive, unless they are protecting their piglets.

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The largest pig recorded is a Poland-China hog named “Big Bill.” This pig achieved a weight of 2,552 lbs (180 stone) he had a shoulder height of 5ft and was 9 ft long, needless to say his belly dragged on the ground.