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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sokel on October 07, 2012, 09:20:11 pm

Title: Skinny pigs
Post by: sokel on October 07, 2012, 09:20:11 pm: Just wondered if anyone else keeps Skinny pigs ?
I know they are not everyones cup of tea but I personaly love them
I have kept them since early 2007 and started breeding them late 2008
I have 17 of them at the moment :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: Sbom on October 07, 2012, 09:22:01 pm: Can't believe I'm admitting this but I just had to google to see what they were :-[
Very, very sweet! :love:
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: jaykay on October 07, 2012, 09:33:48 pm: Sort of cute, in an ET-ish sort of way, but I think I prefer them with fur.
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: sokel on October 07, 2012, 09:34:09 pm: :D I saw a picture of one and was totaly hooked on them, It took me over a year on a waiting list to get one and have since imported some from sweden to get some unrelated lines

This is one of my dalmatian ones from sweden

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/grahamsokel/trocadero2.jpg)
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 07, 2012, 09:37:36 pm: I had to look them up as well. They are sweet but I don't think I'd want to keep them.
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: lill on October 10, 2012, 05:25:49 pm: Some ugly pigs here
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Post by: deepinthewoods on October 10, 2012, 05:26:44 pm: can you not sell them as 'micro pigs' theyd be worth a packet!!
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: NormandyMary on October 10, 2012, 06:03:06 pm: Quote from: deepinthewoods on October 10, 2012, 05:26:44 pm
can you not sell them as 'micro pigs' theyd be worth a packet!!
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: Daisys Mum on October 10, 2012, 07:50:44 pm: Not a lot of meat on them :innocent:
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: tizaala on October 11, 2012, 08:32:33 am: Saves the Peruvians having to skin e'm before cooking ,,,,,
hideous objects. hairless dogs ,hairless cats, now this genetic defect , Why?
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 11, 2012, 08:54:29 am: youve answered your own question there tizzy. nothing worse than a wiry hair beteen your teeth ;)
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: tizaala on October 11, 2012, 09:11:06 am: Organic dental floss Dave :innocent: (It's the ones down the back of your throat that make you gag) romance is not dead....just catching it's breath.
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: jaykay on October 11, 2012, 09:18:43 am: Dear me gentlement, such a fuss - you should try being on the 'receiving' end ;)
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: sokel on October 11, 2012, 09:16:10 pm: Heard it all before and TBH find it a hugh joke that everyone thinks they are original making jokes about them :roflanim:
each to their own though, I like things without hair, I am actualy planning a sphynx next ::)
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 11, 2012, 10:21:19 pm: Quote from: sokel on October 11, 2012, 09:16:10 pm

I like things without hair

me too!
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: tizaala on October 12, 2012, 07:03:12 am: Thats why I'm growing a beard :-J
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 12, 2012, 07:18:32 am: I think it looks very cute. The only thing I find a bit off putting are the claws which I suppose are normally covered by fur?
There...I detracted the topic back from the angle these very naughty boys were taking it ;) however I suspect the diversion will be very temporary....
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: sokel on October 12, 2012, 07:52:27 am: Yes the claws are like that on hairy GPs you just cant see them
Plums boys will be just that little boys. But the real men among us can raise above the childish banter
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 12, 2012, 08:18:58 am: But they were funny Sokel ;) Did make me giggle.

\Do you have to keep the skinny pigs indoors all year round?
Title: Re: Skinny pigs
Post by: sokel on October 12, 2012, 12:14:03 pm: Yes they live indoors all year round, I do put them onto the lawn for an hour if we get a really nice day ::)