If you've been thinking why one would want to keep pigs as pets, here are nineteen reasons why pigs make great pets:
- Pigs are the 3rd smartest animal alongside dolphins and chimpanzees
- Pigs are hypoallergenic
- Pigs don't sweat, so they need to wallow and bathe in water or mud to cool them down
- Pigs are smart and with a little food encouragement they can learn many tricks
- Pigs are actually very clean animals, they will not go to the bathroom where they eat/sleep
- Piglets will choose a teat and will always go back to the same one
- Pigs gestation period is 3 month, 3 weeks, 3 days
- Pigs can swim
- Pigs are very social and enjoy the company of each other (recommend buying in pairs)
- The baby pigs’ mother sings to them when they are nursing through a series of soft, rhythmic grunting
- Pigs have the ability to solve complex problems
- Pigs can dream
- Pigs have very good memories and don’t forget easily
- Pigs understand and comprehend their own names
- Pigs feel emotions and know the feelings of love, hate and forgiveness
- Pigs learn from watching one another and also from watching us humans
- Pigs have a keen sense of direction and can find their way home from a great distance
- Pigs are a prey animal but they learn trust from humans
- Pigs excel at video games that are difficult for a young child and sometimes they do better than the primates
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