Posted on 12/08/2019 7:54:44 PM PST by NoLibZone
Tony Shelley's pet potbelly pigs are affectionately named Kevin Bacon and Zoey Hamilton.
Or ham and bacon if you will.
Shelley told us these are no ordinary pigs. Content Continues Below
They are pigs that help this Marine Corps Combat Veteran deal with trauma.
“They help calm me down, they are emotional support pigs, and i enjoy their company,” he said. “I have had them for 5 years and these pigs are like family.”
Olive Branch Mayor Scott Phillips told us that there is an ordinance against keeping farm animals on small acreage in the city.
Combat Veteran says his pet pigs are emotional support pigs. The city of Olive Branch says a judge will have to decide if the pigs can stay or go. Story at 6:15. Posted by Tom Dees FOX13 Memphis on Friday, December 6, 2019
He also said there have been complaints about a smell coming from Shelley’s property.
Shelley said, yes, his lot is only half an acre but there is no smell.
“No sir, I clean very often and none of the neighbors have complained,” he said. “I lay down fresh straw.”
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He is too damaged. Poor guy.
I thought that Potbelly pigs were considered pets, now. I’ve known some people who kept them.
*** BACON ***
For a minute there I thought this was about Joy Behar and Nasty Pelosi.
In America, they’re pets.
In Viet Nam, they’re food.
Pigs poop quite a lot. Not all emotional support approved animals fit all living situations. He may have some hard choices to make. Would he expect to take them on a plane flight too?
Maybe his pigs identify as cats?
It’s worth a try.
One of these pigs followed me around like a dog at a rural property I was working at many years ago.
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In Viet Nam, dogs are food, too.
“Emotional support” + bacon: hard to beat!
“Emotional support” Honey Badger is close though.
I wish him luck flying with them. I have an emotional support pet rock, that is best friends with my support 12ga pump. If I separate the two my pet rock develops a nervous tic that causes me to stutter. I had to quit flying because the airlines said “Ain’t No Way Jack”. Now we drive everywhere.
Met a little pig at the lake the other day. Lincoln was his name. LInk, for short.
If these pigs are on the small side, I’d prefer them to the half dozen bear hounds that my brother’s neighbor had. They definitely smelled, and worse, sounded like a bunch of sea lions.
I believe that no soldier, sailor, Marine or airman should be forced to deploy to a combat zone more than once if they are subjected to combat.
I asked a Vietnamese friend about that, back in the '70s. For reference he was South Vietnamese, and a refugee from after the fall of Saigon.
His response:
ONLY VIETCONG DO THAT!!!!!!!
Pigs are another matter.
Pigs are very intelligent, as animals go - in fact they are so intelligent, they make difficult pets if you are lazy about training and discipline. You might want to look into the literature comparing their intelligence to other animals that you would probably never willingly eat.
Potbellies can make very good pets, if you’re up to it:
https://www.thesprucepets.com/pot-bellied-pigs-as-pets-1237171
(For what it’s worth, I like bacon as much as any red-blooded American does, and I don’t have an agenda. I’m just very interested in animal behavior and cognition.)
Lol! You had me going for a little bit.
I used to have Rock Collections as a kid, and places to display them that no one would bother.
I think I’ve heard similar from Korean people.
The fact is that people all over the world eat animals that you and I would find revolting - even immoral - to eat. And people have developed meaningful relationships and kept as pets animals that most of us never would.
Never thought a marine needed “emotional support” from a pig. I could be wrong.
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