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Soon we will own a few....  Let's add to the chaos.  Why not?

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  1. Taylor @ Pink Heels Pink TruckMarch 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM

    How cool! My mother-in-law once had a Pot Belly as a pet. She loved that pig.

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    1. NicoleMarch 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM

      Leilee really loves these pigs! I collected pigs as a child. Unfortunately, these pigs are for our freezer. We are so becoming Farmer Brown this year...

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  2. Masked MomMarch 19, 2012 at 7:49 AM

    Will these be dinner pigs or pet pigs? Or some weird combination of both? I have a friend whose parents were raising a beef cow and she would go out to the fence every day and have a conversation with the cow and pet its nose, etc, etc. Her father caught her at this one day and said, "Haven't I told you not to play with your food?" Ah, farm humor. :)

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    1. NicoleMarch 20, 2012 at 6:58 PM

      I know!! It is so twisted. I am having a kind of hard time with it. They are still in the somewhat cute stage, and I am trying not to talk to them or get attached. I know I am going to have to leave with the kids and go far away when it is butchering time. That I will not be able to handle. Although the pork chop part of it will be easy once it is all over...

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