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Inserting case of government overreaching.
Autism is widespread.
Welllll now . . .
just because there are joker pigs with lipstick heading government
is ABSOLUTELY NO
reason for real pigs to affront bureaucratic tyrannical authoritarianism.
Sheesh.
/sar
The family didn’t know there was an ordinance against farm animals? And yes, a pig is a farm animal. I’m sure a puppy would have been just as beneficial.
Hopefully the pig has a spider friend.
There’s a reason farm animals are banned in city limits: most of them produce great quantities of very foul-smelling manure that breeds unbelievable numbers of flies and is difficult to dispose of even when the owner lives in the country. I’m a farm girl myself and I know that manure disposal and fly control are serious problems even when you just have one animal in the country. It’s unfair to impose those problems on your close-by neighbors in the city or suburbs. Pigs reek, even small pigs. It may sound amusing, but believe me, it’s not like having even a very large dog. I would pity the next-door neighbors.
The parents who brought this animal into their child’s life were foolish in the extreme. I agree that probably the right dog would have had the same positive effect. If the pig is so important to their son—and I can understand and sympathize with their predicament—then they should move to someplace where the pig won’t be a problem. Easier said than done, I know, but when you have a very fragile child you’re willing to make that sort of sacrifice.
I did some work on a house out in the country once, the next door neighbor’s had a pot bellied pig that approached me just like a friendly dog does, followed me around for an hour or so begging to be scratched behind the ears then trotted back to it’s own house.
Big, bossy government rears its head again.
i would think the pig could be qualified as a service animal and therefore given special consideration.
The kid is legally handicapped isn’t he? If you can take a seeing eye dog into a grocery store then you should be able to have a pig in your own back yard.
I bet if they get a note from a doctor saying this is a beneficial treatment for the kid they could threaten to sue the city and all this will disappear.