Government Bans Man’s Best Friend

Another case of a pet potbellied pig (arthritic, no less) being put out to pasture and not in a good way because of needless interference of official and non-official busybodies .   You can see from the photograph how happy this pig is with his 78 year old owner and he isn’t disrupting his neighborhood in any consequential way whatsoever: 

He spends his days inside a four-foot-high chain-link pen in the backyard, sleeps on blankets in the garage, and never barks, bites or leaves the property. The animal likes children, especially when they feed him popcorn, and never wallows in mud, Kallhoff said.

Does this sound like an animal the government needs to make a fuss over?  How is this worse than a dog?  I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, laws need to be focused to give the most amount of freedom possible to property owners.  Making biased and arbitrary lists of animals to ban is not good legislation.

Perhaps the saddest line of the article, referring to choices that would have to be made if the man and his friend lose in court: “‘I would probably have to have him [the pig] euthanized because I don’t think anybody would take care of him the way I do.’”

This is a choice he shouldn’t have to make.