Our affection for pigs is strong 🫶

Pig was like “whaaaaaat the fuck is this??!?”

“Get this sky off me!!”

This got a full laugh out of me.

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

Purple hog

All in its pen

Just don’t lift his head up my friend.

Like a continuous belly laugh. The whole schtik, OOP to OP – 15/10

Fuck what a good comment

I see what you did there

Spigtacular comment!

You are amazing

Incredible

Pigs are just dramatic af. I swear, they be screaming like they’re roasted alive for every minor inconvenience.

My old boss had a pair of pigs at his farm. Smartest creatures I’ve ever met, but good lord they really were drama queens. They’d scream bloody murder whenever they saw me. Not because they were afraid, but because they very quickly figured out that 1) humans give them food, and 2) when they screamed at me, it would tug at my heartstrings and I’d give them lots of attention trying to figure out if they were injured and calm them down. They liked food, they liked attention, so cue the screams. My boss’ wife found the whole thing funny as hell.

Ah yes professional histrionics! My dachshund went to the same classes.

All of them going to workshops taught by Huskies. The most dramatic of animals.

I’ve had my husky for about 6 months and I adore him. He’s an old boy and was already potty trained when I got him. I would move the sun and sky for him. But I can not express the exasperation I felt when in the second week, I was sitting down taking the mother of all shits and he OPENED MY BATHROOM DOOR, and just started crying and acting like the world was on fire because he HAD to go outside. It was DEFCON 1. He was running in and out of the bathroom, nudging me, then running out and pawing at the front door, vocalizing the whole time. It was imperative he be let out! So, I scrambled and pinched myself shut, got his harness on, and we booked it down the stairs, and he promptly and immediately lays in the grass and started rolling around in it. Soaking up the sun, and was annoyed that I didn’t immediately sit in the grass with him and pet him. The fucker didn’t have to use the bathroom. He just wanted to be outside and wanted pets. That’s it. That moment really did inform me what true dramatics were. God I love this little bastard and his antics.

My sister – who trains farm dogs – told me that if I didn’t react to my husky’s histrionics, he’d learn to stop doing them. So I have a relatively quiet and non-dramatic husky. But instead of the drama, I get the silent treatment. If he wants something, he may as well be a totally dead weight until he gets it. If we wants to go outside (like say five minutes after we come back inside) and I sit next to him on the couch, he’ll get up and go lay in his bed and dramatically sigh. If I follow him, he’ll move back to the couch. When there’s a treat or something he wants, he’s well enough behaved he won’t take it, but he will just sit and stare at it indefinitely. All his training or will to listen goes out the window until he gets it. He’s like those protestors that just go completely limp instead of resisting. In fact, when I bathe him, that’s *exactly* what he does. He won’t even stand up or sit in the bath tub.

I’ve found a good middle ground with my boy where he isn’t anywhere near as dramatic anymore and he listens well to my commands and can communicate effectively when he’s uncomfortable or actually needs something, but ooooh boy, when the vocalizations start up he will be super talkative. It’s mostly when we’re playing now, but he is yappy. And he’s only yappy with me. If I have a guest over, he’s very quiet except for the occasional jealous harrumph if he thinks I’m giving someone more attention than him. Most people were so confused how I had such a quiet husky. Then they understood if they called me or we were playing video games and they could here him in the background.

We don’t watch those videos. Oscar does not need any more ideas and notes to hit!

Yeah, pigs are kind of like huskies that way. They just love making a ton of noise for the slightest inconvenience

Drama queens!

Ah. Is that how we came to discover that pigs are the most physiologically, and genetically similar non-primate mammals to humans, and share so much DNA?

Naw. It’s cause they taste the same.

Soylent Green has best flavouring

The Other Green Meat

They are not particularly close to humans genetically, at least no moreso than any other mammal. They are physiologically similar on account of being omnivores with a similar size.

> with a similar size Cheeky fucker

I’m not a geneticist and understand about 10% of what I read about it, but there are extensive studies being done on pigs comparing things beyond the average 80ish% shared dna of mammals. They are beginning to understand the similarities of transcriptomes and signaling pathways that make us more like them than other mammals.