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Offbeat News tagged with pigs

This Little Piggie May Not Always Be 'Teacup' Size
Offbeat  (tags: potbellied, pigs, pet pigs, teacup size, controversy, breeders, growing pigs )

Simone
- 37 days ago - usatoday.com
A tempest is swirling around teacups. A recent, growing wave of interest in piglets as pets - prompted by breeder promises of significantly smaller-sized, "teacup" adult porkers, and some publicized celebrity purchases of them - has breeders scrambling
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Pig Barks Up the Wrong Tree: Prudence the Porker Thinks She's a Dog
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, pigs, environment, protection )

Cher
- 62 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A sickly piglet who was saved from death by an animal rescue charity has befriended six dogs who helped raise her
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Pictured: The Hen That Reared Ducklings and the Dog That Mothered a Piglet
Offbeat  (tags: mother dog, raised, pigs, hen raised ducklings, animals, bonding )

Simone
- 128 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Luckily for the pig, this dog's bark is worse than his bite. In a heartwarming tale from China, footage has emerged of a farm dog successfully rearing a piglet - even providing it with daily helpings of milk. China Central TV broadcast video of the dog
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Earth Picture Galleries
Offbeat  (tags: animals, pigs, swimming, Bahamas, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 160 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The bay of pigs: swine swimming in crystal clear water in the Bahamas.
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Never Mind Swine Flu, These Caribbean Pigs Are in the Swim
Offbeat  (tags: animals, pigs, swimming, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 161 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
These feral pigs are in the swim and hugely popular with locals and tourists when they take a daily turn in the crystal clear sea.
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Pig Nightmare of Vegetarian Driver
Offbeat  (tags: humor, interesting, off-beat, animals, German, germany, pigs, slaughterhouse, vegan, vegatarian )

Max
- 462 days ago - ecoscraps.com
These little piggies were going to market, when......
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Iowa Farmer Makes a Sorrowful Choice
Offbeat  (tags: Iowa, flood, pigs, death, farmer, hogs )

Eduardo
- 553 days ago - chicagotribune.com
By the time a friend sped up the lane to Ron Lanz's farm Saturday evening--shouting that the Iowa River levee had blown--Lanz knew he faced a fateful decision: To save his own life, more than 800 of his hogs would have to die.
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China Rings Out Year of Fluorescent Green Pigs
Offbeat  (tags: China, pigs, fluorescent, green, piglets, transgenic, research, transgenic pigs )

Sky Bird
- 715 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BEIJING (Reuters) - A fluorescent green Chinese pig has given birth to two piglets which share their mother's transgenic characteristic after she mated with an ordinary pig, state media said.
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