Welp, it looms like I'm getting a pet pig :-)

[chriscw81]

Today I was watching football and cleaning my G27 and then this conversation with the spousal unit happened:

Wife: babe, did you know pet pigs can be trained to use a litter box?(she fell in love with a pig yesterday at a pet expo).

Me: we are not getting a pig. We already have 2 dogs, a cat, and 2 boys under the age of 3.

Wife: but I really really want one.

Me: *silence* (go back to cleaning my gun and watching my boys dismantle the rams)

Wife: if you let me get a pig I'll let you get buy the AR-47 thingy you want. (I recently ordered a stripped lower for my first AR-15 build, but I had to promise to build it over a VERY long period of time)

Me: hmmm where can we get a pig?

So.....It looks like I'll be getting a pet pig.



Chris






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[hso]

Y'know they don't stay small and cuddly (but they do barbecue up real good).

 

[chriscw81]

Y'know they don't stay small and cuddly (but they do barbecue up real good).

Oh yeah, I'm aware(she may not be, though) and cooking a whole pig one day sounds great to me. The only thing I love more than BBQ is my guns





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[HighExpert]

I think you are still in pretty good shape. My wife instituted the policy of equal jewelry for every gun purchase. She even said it was in effect when I bought HER a gun. The pig doesn't sound too bad. Everyone loves bacon.

 

[LNK]

Name him ham sandwich or pork chops to prepare the family for the inevitable...

LNK

 

[Texan Scott]

:trot out tired old Texas Aggie/ pig with wooden leg joke HERE:

Classic. * Giggles, wipes tear from eye *

 

[akv3g4n]

The wife and I have 3 potbelly pigs that we got from a rescue organization. Very intelligent and amusing pets.

You'll enjoy the pigs and your rifle, I'm sure.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

I'm so glad I don't have a wife to answer too... I have a whiney girlfriend... But I suppose I could always just tell her to leave

 

[chriscw81]

Its a win win for me, I grew up with friends who had household pet pot bellies and I've secretly always wanted one





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[jad0110]

Name him ham sandwich or pork chops to prepare the family for the inevitable.

Yep. That new AK might just come in handy .

Bacon ... it's meat candy. Salty and delicious!

 

[Yarddog]

The only household Pig I know of is Arnold on Green Acres ; )
Y/D

 

[Fremmer]

You settled too easy. A pig is worth at least a rifle and a pistol.

 

[dab102999]

If you are on facebook do a search for your area on pet relocators or free farm animals. I always see potbellies on there.

 

[HOOfan_1]

Reminds me of a Bud Light commercial I saw while watching football.

It was showing why guys should hang out with Ken Jeong. He rolls up with a baby pig and the guys all way "what is the deal with the pig?" Ken Jeong says "just wait" and then a couple of hot women come up cooing over the pig.

 

[bergmen]

Y'know they don't stay small and cuddly (but they do barbecue up real good).

Unless you get a micro-mini which grows to 30# max:





Or a nano-mini which grows to 15# max:



The first pictures are of Jasmine when she was a baby. The second picture is of Oscar (Sir-Squeaks-a-Lot) when he was a tyke. They are fully grown now.

Jasmine's first litter:





Sorry to get OT...

Dan

 

[beatledog7]

I have no pets; a pig would not be high my the adoption list.

Grocery list, sure.

 

[Willie Sutton]

When I worked in Honduras, the expat yank running the dirt airport where we had DC-3's had a full sized porker named Barbeque as his pet. BBQ was a well known and very well loved part of the community there.

Pigs are cool critters... enjoy!


Willie


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[AlexanderA]

Get the pig, but don't make it a quid pro quo for getting a rifle. I've learned the hard way to never bargain with the spouse when it comes to hobbies. Get what you want (and can afford), and if the wife objects, tell her she knows where the door is (and not to slam it on the way out). Healthy relationships have boundaries. As Rudyard Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke!" (I've been married 35 years, if that makes a difference.)

 

[md2lgyk]

No thanks. My wife's chickens are bad enough. And they don't even come into the house (though I think she'd let them if they could control their pooping). She even named one of them McNugget.

 

[TimboKhan]

Two things:

First, potbellied pigs are not at all delicious. I have eaten one, and it was awful.

Two, this one is clearly going to get closed for being off topic. An amusing and somewhat neat topic, but not at all related to firearms. Nothing personal, just totally not a firearms related topic.