![]() ![]() We no longer raise pigs on our farm, nor do most other small family farms. In short, I wouldn’t compare pigs to golden retrievers - they’re much more like people. Still, our pigs were indisputably very smart with distinctive personalities, and sows made terrific moms (helicopter moms, too, keeping a close eye on wayward piglets). By the time we got home, those pigs must have concluded that humans were a particularly ill-tempered and unaffectionate species. Once when I was about 15, I had to traipse through the forest for more than two miles to track three of them down, and herding them back was a nightmare. ![]() Defenders of farm animals sometimes compare pigs to dogs, but our hogs didn’t display any canine-style affection and instead were grouchy, whiny, strong-willed and prone to wander. We used to raise hogs on our family farm here, and to be honest I didn’t much like them. ![]()
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