I spent a few years of my early childhood living on a farm. I don’t remember very much from that period but I do recall being attached to many of the animals, mostly the babies. The animals were outside most of the time, when I noticed one of them missing I just figured they ran off to be with their friends in the wild. I also remember that we ate a whole lot of chicken.

Now I’m a big girl with two kids of my own. I wanted my children to have a pet but I’m not a dog person and cats make me sneeze. I read that people have been bringing miniature pot-bellied pigs home as pets and the farm girl in me got excited. Since I already ruled out having a cow in my living room, we got the pig.

Our pig, that my kids named Piggy, was … Read more