Comments on: This little piggy stayed home, no longer.

This little piggy stayed home, no longer.

yeti — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:22:01 -0800

"While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt." This little piggy is afraid of the mud. Cuteness ahoy.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:32:46 -0800

I need to hug that pig RIGHT NOW.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:32:47 -0800

Shenanigans! Shenanigans, I say! If you're going to put little plastic boots on your piglet and put the cute pictures on the internet to publicize your sausage business, just DO IT and don't make up an amusing back story about an immature animal suffering from a human phobia!

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:36:12 -0800

They left out the part of the story where they learned of the pig's fear of mud through a message written in a spider web.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:37:45 -0800

Calpigula

By: tadellin

tadellin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:39:20 -0800

Who's up for bacon?

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:44:08 -0800

Some pig.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:46:35 -0800

*dies*

By: The Man from Lardfork

The Man from Lardfork — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:46:53 -0800

I love bacon, but now I love that pig, too. I don't know how to feel about this. My brain hurts.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:47:22 -0800

yhbc said: "Shenanigans! Shenanigans, I say! If you're going to put little plastic boots on your piglet and put the cute pictures on the internet to publicize your sausage business, just DO IT and don't make up an amusing back story about an immature animal suffering from a human phobia!" Article: "Although they were pig farmers for 20 years, the Keebles keep them only as pets nowadays."

By: Aversion Therapy

Aversion Therapy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:47:56 -0800

Yeah, must agree with yhbc here. The cuteness of the situation is somewhat excised by the fact that the pig in question, pretty name or no, is ultimately destined for sausage. Clean and dirt-free sausage apparently, but sausage nonetheless.

By: Aversion Therapy

Aversion Therapy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:49:03 -0800

On review, what loiseau said. Apparently, I didn't RTFA closely enough. Okay, I'll jump on the cute bandwagon then.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:49:06 -0800

As if I needed to give my girlfriend another reason to insist that we keep a pig as a pet.

By: OldReliable

OldReliable — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:52:37 -0800

Do you people even read past the first paragraph? Go back and read to the bottom. If you don't read the whole article in a link, why do you think that you can make absolute statements about the topic? just type tl:dr and go somewhere else.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:47 -0800

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!! Cute, cute, cute. Also, did I mention that pig is fucking cute in its little wellingtons! Dude, that word has lost all meaning to me now.

By: the littlest brussels sprout

the littlest brussels sprout — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:54:27 -0800

I have a very low tolerance for kitsch, but I am inexplicably delighted by animals wearing human clothing. I love them. SO. MUCH. My SO is trying to dissuade me from adopting a puppy. He thinks that once I start dressing it in cargo shorts and and parkas and teeny tiny t-shirts, full-blown insanity will undoubtedly follow. He may be right, but I say there are worse kinds of crazy.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:54:34 -0800

We have a pig owner in the neighborhood. Lives just around the curve from us. She takes him for walkies by our house, but she can't find a suitable harness for it, so she made one out of a t-shirt. So my neighbor walks a pig wearing a t-shirt. It's the sort of thing I'm glad I lived to see.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:54:35 -0800

Article: "The couple, who run the award-winning Debbie and Andrew's sausage company in Thirsk, North Yorkshire ..." Get off that bandwagon! I don't care how cute it is!!!

By: DU

DU — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:08:54 -0800

OK, first of all, just because they aren't killing the pig doesn't mean they aren't exploiting it for free advertising. Second of all, Calpigula. Come on, not every MeFite is entirely ignorant of Roman history!

By: kalimac

kalimac — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:09:17 -0800

Somehow making it even better, it appears the couple lives in Thirsk -- perhaps better known as Darrowby to fans of James Herriot. Somehow, I think the old vitn'ry would approve.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:15:56 -0800

Omg, I could just eat her up, she's so cute!

By: Phanx

Phanx — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:16:28 -0800

I got it, DU. Little boot.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:54 -0800

omg leetle boots on leetle pig

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:26:16 -0800

Nothing good will come of this...

By: DaDaDaDave

DaDaDaDave — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:26:40 -0800

A mysophobic pig! What's next, a talking banana? Of course not. The very notion of a talking banana is absurd. Still...

By: rottytooth

rottytooth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:30:30 -0800

The second photo is kind of disturbing, looks like the pig has human-feet.

By: Servo5678

Servo5678 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:36:52 -0800

"Cinders the Pig" sounds like a Sonic the Hedgehog character.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:40:42 -0800

And I didn't think it got cuter than teacup piglets. Oh, how naive I was.

By: chimaera

chimaera — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:50:37 -0800

Next thing you know, she'll be standing on her hind legs, using dogs to strong-arm the other animals, and the kindly old horse will be dead.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:52:45 -0800

So my neighbor walks a pig wearing a t-shirt. THIS ANECDOTE IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:54:11 -0800

I will attempt to photograph them next time I see them. It's rare that I catch them passing, but I'll sure try.

By: msconduct

msconduct — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:07:39 -0800

i'm with yhbc on this. it's cute as the dickens, but i don't believe a word of it. except for the fact that the pig wears wellies. and when the little porker outgrows the boots, they can always get her a pair of these.

By: Mastercheddaar

Mastercheddaar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:31:05 -0800

Question: What is better thick cut peppered bacon or this pig? This is a tough one! I might have to say the bacon due to the fact that it is readily available whereas a pig in boots is not.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:35:53 -0800

In other news: U.S. officials dither while antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains creep into our pork supply

By: onlyconnect

onlyconnect — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:48:16 -0800

This looks like a satisfied pig! In other news, dogs in particular seem to be not so crazy about wearing the boots (oh the shame!).

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:55:18 -0800

What you need is lots of soap! Ishy squishy ishy squishy ishy squishy NOPE!

By: geeky

geeky — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:05:15 -0800

OMG that is unbearably cute.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:57:42 -0800

Shenanigans!...don't make up an amusing back story about an immature animal suffering from a human phobia! Why assume that only humans have irrational fears? Anecdotal example: we have a labrador retriever. Like all labs, he loves water. He accompanies my SO on duck hunting trips, spends much of the winter unflinching while shotguns blast a few feet over his head and willingly leaps into freezing marshes to retrieve the fallen birds. At home, he runs into any body of water: oceans, lakes, rivers, swimming pools and if left unattended, will try to cram himself into water-filled buckets. But...he will not cross wooden bridges on foot if he can see the water between the boards. We have to carry him, all 85 pounds of him, across docks and foot bridges. We've had him since he was a puppy, we know his sire and dam, we know the person who bred him and raised him and he's never had a traumatic incident involving a bridge or wood or water. It's just an irrational fear, but there it is.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:19:33 -0800

I always thought it was sheep who were supposed to wear wellies. (Link safe for work, I swear.) But I'm sure there's all sort of Rule 34 awesomeness awaiting the intersection of the furries and the shoe fetishists. But, yeah, adorably cute. Aww! *explodes*

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:25:32 -0800

cats hate water. what's so weird about a pig being dirt phobic?

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:10 -0800

onlyconnect: i feel so badly for that chinese crested in the "about" link. poor thing is already laughted out of existence, and now he's the center of a room full of guffaw-ers!? poor thing. but, i LOVED all those videos, nonetheless. thanks for posting them! and yeti, thx for the wee piggy in rubbers, too. i saw it yesterday on cute overload, but it's still quite a fun story!

By: misha

misha — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:26:06 -0800

The pig in boots and the teacup pig are just unbearably cute. I must have pigs now. Can I order some on teh internets? And I never knew those boots were called wellingtons, either.

By: QueerAngel28

QueerAngel28 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:14:55 -0800

"Shenanigans! Shenanigans, I say! If you're going to put little plastic boots on your piglet and put the cute pictures on the internet to publicize your sausage business, just DO IT and don't make up an amusing back story about an immature animal suffering from a human phobia!" Agreed.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:52:52 -0800

Piglet-wearing-boots: it would indeed make a great label to slap on those juicy award-winning Debbie and Andrew's sausages. Too bad 'Cinders' is an unmarketable name. Little pig, little pig, om nom nom.