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 [...]

I just came across this in the Dallas Morning News:  “Dallas pet happy to hog spotlight as world’s oldest pig.”
Yes, Oscar, as he is called, holds the Guinness World Record for his old age.  Oscar is 20 years old whereas normally potbellied pigs only live around 15.
Still, it wouldn’t surprise if there were other pigs [...]

I never met Gwendolyn the pet pot-bellied pig, but I am both sad and happy to learn of her passing.  Sad to have lost a sweet animal who, with her owner, led a campaign against unjust bureaucratic lawmakers in Prince George’s County, Maryland.  She amassed a number of news stories describing her sweet temperament and [...]

It’s a good thing potbellied pig owners are as stubborn as their pets, otherwise by today Gwendolyn, a Vietnamese porker, would have been a goner.  Kudos to Ms. Pat Brown who has refused to do-in her pet at the behest of her county government.   As long as PG County Government persists in its needless [...]

As you may already know, I have taken up the new pasttime of political activism on behalf of pet potbellied pigs and their owners, specifically regarding one pig and her approaching death sentence.  Yesterday I emailed a local councilman with my views on this matter.  Since it could also be looked upon as a manifesto [...]

Gwendolyn is a 20-year old potbellied pig that has been living peacefully with her owner, Pat Brown, since her youth.  That is, until Prince George’s County disrupted that peace.  When Brown first brought Gwendolyn to her home in Prince George’s County, Maryland, zoning laws were broad enough to protect a large variety of animals as [...]