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The amazing life story of a natural ham

Original post made on Nov 13, 2018

Move over Miss Piggy. There's a new superstar hogging the limelight: Pickles the pig, who lives in the loving care of Portola Valley native Maddie Johnson.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, November 12, 2018, 9:32 PM

Comments

Posted by Martin Engel
a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Nov 13, 2018 at 12:44 pm

Whenever there are pig-as-pet (not pork) discussions and stories, we are immediately informed about their intelligence, superb potential domesticity and yes, lovableness. Yet, we primarily have dogs and cats for pets. Also birds in cages or even (parrots) roaming freely around the house. If we can afford it, a few of us have pet horses under our affectionate care. But, no pigs. (Well, maybe a few, but certainly nothing like the volume of most other pet species.)

Why is that? What do pet stores have to say about this? Is there no pet market for pig breeders? Why aren't there pig pet kennels, piglet conformation shows or piglet obedience and agility trials? Has Maddie Johnson sparked a potential pet pig paradigm shift that's been waiting to happen?

As a former dog and cat owner, upon reading this article I intend to launch a persuasion strategy to convince my wife of this new way to solve our 'empty nest' problem. At least, I'm about to do some serious Google due diligence.


Posted by Elsie Floriani
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 13, 2018 at 2:23 pm

Might be fun doing a story on Pickles in Gentry Magazine. Let me know.
Elsie Floriani
Founder/Executive Editor
Gentry Magazine
elsie@18media.com