Pig In A Poke

[Macha]

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from Tesco magazine, Sept/Oct 2005

PIG IS TOP DOG - Purdey the porker beats the pooches at their own games

Spectators at a dog display show were astonished to see the team's new recruit - a heavyweight pig.

And Purdey, the 31-stone New Zealand Kune Kune, was not only negotiating the slalom poles, going through the dog tunnel, and showing off her retrieval techniques; she was also the star of theshow, outdoing all the dogs.

Trained since birth by owner Sue Williams from Warrington, three year old Purdey has learned the tasks in half the time taken by the cleverest dogs. And she leaves her canine counterparts standing in the show's grand finale - where she takes a hoop off a cone and puts it into a bucket. As yet, no dog has mastered it.

Sue,...who runs the Cheshire Canine Centre with her husband Derek,... says, "Pigs are definitely cleverer than dogs.

"As a piglet, Purdey was great at retrieval demonstrations - especially if she was rewarded with a bunch of grapes.

"She used to fly over the dog jumps, too. But as she has grown bigger and heavier, she can't get over the jumps like she used to."

 

[*Lesley*]

:lol: :lol: :lol: I would love to see that

 

[kris]

pigs are highly intelligent :thumbsup:

 

[Alba]

pigs are highly intelligent :thumbsup:

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yes, I've heard that.

I like Tamworth pigs, they are quite attractive.

do they make good pets?

intelligence isn't the end all - monkeys and chimps are probably too intelligent to be really suitable pets.

I'm wondering whether there are other species which can have the rapport that humans and canines have together.

suggestions?

 

[Macha]

I don't have an answer to that question. I did see a nice film about camels and you can race them too. and goats can be quite friendly ...

I watched racing pigs this summer. They looked nice, young pigs, squeeky clean

They were very slow compared to dogs. They didn't chase a rag; they just ran to their feed bins. I asked the trainer how often the pigs train. He said every day, so I reckon that is how they are always fed. They are just raced for one season then retired. The trainer must get attached to his racing pigs, he volunteered the info that they were all sows who would be kept for breeding.

 

[Susan]

Pigs are very bright animals . I worked with them from the age of 16 till 24 and they knew the times they were fed (w00t) . Every time the clocks changed I either went into the farm and the pigs were squeeling thier heads off or sound asleep A few had names and they could answer to them. My fav are large white's,,Landrece were a pain to move about as they got big floppy ears and they flopped over their eye's and they could refuse to walk :lol: :lol: .

Pigs are very clean animals, the only time our lot got very dirty was in the summer out in the fields. We used to keep an area wet so the pigs could keep cool and not get sun burn :thumbsup:

 

[Alba]

would you say pigs have a good rapport with humans - or the potential to have such a rapport (I know that pot-bellied pigs are sometimes kept as pets)

"I'm wondering whether there are other species which can have the rapport that humans and canines have together.

suggestions?"