Adopted feral piglet, Manni, goes nose to nose with the family dog.
Adopted feral piglet, Manni, goes nose to nose with the family dog.

Now for your saccharine sweet moment of the week, I bring you this tidbit from the Spiegel Online International news about “Manni” the piglet and his new friend, “Candy”, the Jack Russell Terrier. 

According to the article, Manni was found abandoned and starving in a field, and the family brought him in, bottle-fed him back to health, and introduced him to the family dog. 

The family also introduced the perky porker to their Jack Russell terrier Candy. It turned out to be a match made in hog heaven. According to Dahlhaus, “the pair play together every day. They play hide and seek, romp around in the hedges and bushes and just have a lot of fun together.” Apparently Manni, who is now five weeks old, is even figuring out how to communicate with Candy — he’s learning to bark.

Sound crazy?  It’s not, really. 

Most of us know how intelligent pigs are.  They are easy to domesticate, and actually can become very good pets.  We had a sow when I was a kid, and that thing learned to do everything my Lab puppy would do, including retrieving a tennis ball, bringing me a food dish when I called “dinner time”, and swimming with us in the tidal creeks.  Unfortunately for “Petunia”, she became the main course at a fund-raising pig pickin’. 

According to the article, Manni won’t see any such fate.  Although Mr. Dalhaus, the fellow who rescued her is a hunter, he’s guaranteed that Manni will remain a family pet.

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