Someone in my neighborhood has a pot bellied pig.

[hobbit709]

The dogs around here all started barking and when I looked outside, there was this woman walking her pig on a leash.

[hlthe2b]

1. Something new....

Funny how dogs react... My sweetie finally got used to the hundreds of wild rabbits around here and hardly pays them even a cursory glance even as the young graze on the tender grass a few feet away from her. But, squirrels, (which for some reason have been rare this summer) are now popping out and she is going nuts.

I dearly hope she decides this new "rabbit with a bushy tail" is no longer novel, as I suspect the dogs will with your neighbor's pig.

[rocktivity]

2. "IT'S --

BACON!!!"


rocktivity

[hobbit709]

3. Bacon on the hoof.

[Walk away]

4. Oh NOOOOOOOES!

[Worried senior]

5. If I was younger

I'd love to have one.

[IrishAyes]

6. Pot bellies don't have a stellar long term as forever pets.

Some people can manage them, but they don't stay small if fed generously, and can present a whole host of problems. Does your town/county allow livestock?

Out in the country I once had a neighbor with a pot belly left to forage for itself. It was essentially a wild pig and loved to come after my flowers. (My front yard wasn't fenced.) More than once I had to beat him off with a hoe, and you'd better believe his tusks were big. I even told his owner that I'd be smoking pork for the winter if she didn't keep him up, but she couldn't or wouldn't. One day he just up and disappeared. Wasn't me, either, but only because I didn't get to him first. A lot of people don't understand how dangerous a stubborn, angry porker can be. Almost as dangerous as an Irish lady guarding her roses.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. Hopefully she has a "teacup" pig

Pot bellied pigs are cute when they are little, but can grow to 300 pounds! Mini/micro/teacup pigs grow to 30 to 60 pounds as adults. The problem is that all piglets are little and some unscrupulous breeders sell piglets that are really normal size and will grow to be hundreds of pounds.