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Care and Health Insurance for your Pet Pot Bellied Pig
There have been lots of books written about
dogs like Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, Black
Beauty is every girls dream horse after his memoirs were
so cleverly translated, and a recent string of mystery
novels featuring sleuthing cats have earned felines a
place in the literary annals. Considering that isn’t it
interesting that some of the animal characters most people
seem to remember the best are pigs.
When book lovers think of pigs they smile
as they remember the sweet innocence of Wilbur as he
strutted around the barnyard, or they shudder with
delicious distaste as they think about how George Orwell's
Napoleon ruled the farm after overthrowing the humans in
Animal Farm.
Recently pigs have been finding their way into more and
more homes as family pets. Many pet owners are delighted
by the pig’s keen intelligence and dynamic personality. Or
they walk into a neat tidy barn and spot and entire litter
of new piglets sleeping in a little pig heap on a bed of
straw. The next thing they know they have purchased a
young pot bellied pig and are taking it home.
The first mistake people often make is assuming that a pot
bellied pig would make a good pet for their family is that
they don't really understand that the cuteness
fades...fast. One minute they are holding a cute little
piglet, the next they are looking at a short legged
growing piglet with a strangely shaped skull, drooping
jowls, and stiff hair.
The next mistake pet owners make when they purchase a
potbellied pig is that they assume it will stay miniature
sized. While it is true that the pot bellied pig is
considerably smaller then its barnyard cousins pet owners
need to understand that the pigs that are used for bacon
and Easter hams are normally butchered at weight
surpassing three hundred and fifty pounds. The full grown
sows can weigh in at well over five hundred pounds.
Once you have purchased a newborn potbellied pig you need
to start thinking about its health care. Pot bellied pigs
need to be spayed or neutered, they need to have their
feet trimmed on a regular basis, they need to have their
long tusks trimmed, and they need yearly vaccinations.
Purchasing a pet health plan for your new pet might help
make veterinary care more affordable.
If you decide to purchase a health
insurance plan for your pot bellied pig make sure it is
one that it will still be valid at the end of your pets
life, which could bet twenty years away. If you are unable
to find a pet health insurance company who is selling
coverage for potbellied pigs try to get a deal through an
insurance company that insure farmers’ valuable livestock.
In addition to health insurance pot bellied pig owners
should probably consider getting some type of liability
insurance in case their pot bellied pig accidentally hurts
someone. For the most part pot bellied pigs are low key
and amiable but once in a while you can stumble across one
that gets irritated with people. Just like their larger,
barnyard cousins, pot bellied pigs a re very strong they
literally toss a full grown man to the side with just a
little nudge of their snout.
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