I mean, I don’t want to be the one to ruin this moment of, “Aw, adorable pigs swimming in the ocean!” but isn’t anyone else unnerved that there are three pigs and this video could totally be the set-up to a “Three Little Pigs” re-imagining with a shark instead of a wolf? The last thing we need is for sharks to…
Pigs celebrate Mother's Day by rolling around in mud and being hella smart and cute.
This is Zorro. He's a two month old pig who loves to surf. And we love to watch him surf, because finally something is alright in the world. Also, perhaps it's because I'm a Bleedy Female, but I'm crying. Is this weird? Should I be treated for hysteria? Help?
Here are some adorable Farm Sanctuary rescue pigs eating delicious seasonal fare. Pigs might be my most favorite animal because they're cute, smart, and love to eat pumpkins. Pigs know what's up.
The CDC has been tracking a new strain of pig flu linked to state and county fairs. Concerned epidemiologists say this new strain might share a gene with the 2009 pandemic flu strain, which allows it to pass easily from pigs to humans. Out of 29 recorded human cases in the past year (most of which are children), there…
Dogs and pigs, living together — what's the world coming to if not one giant, adorable menagerie in which all the fuzzy animals love and nuzzle each other and all the bugs leave on a spaceship for a planet where they'll be more appreciated? It also seems about right to echo David Foster Wallace's incredulity at the…
Donald Trump is in the news again for sparking yet another celebrity feud, this time with Cher. The singer made a comment last week on Twitter about his friend Mitt Romney, saying, "If ROMNEY gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters."…
Mother Nature has already given us so many things to be terrified of in this world—flesh eating bacteria, tsunamis, Tan Mom, to name just a few. Tapeworms certainly deserve a place on the list too. Who among us did not become obsessed with the idea that we might have one slithering around inside our intestines when we…
Former Presidential Candidate and alleged serial ladygrabber Herman Cain's been on a bit of a media blitz lately. First, he appeared on Fox News to inform viewers that men like Mitt Romney because they're more informed about policy than "other people" (psst: women!). Now, a TV commercial that uses the bizarre imagery…
The first few seconds of this video are sort of like the first half of Jaws, if Jaws were about something adorable (a large manatee named Skipper) that wanted to give hugs to all the bathers in Amity — the anticipation of actually seeing Spunky (the featured piglet) over the rim of the sink his caretaker has placed…
This tolerant bulldog's name is Baby, and she has adopted six orphaned wild boar piglets at an animal sanctuary in Germany. And there are lots of photos! If you like cuteness, it is your lucky day.
The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have kept slaughterhouses from killing "sick or wobbly pigs." Before you get too grossed out, their rationale was that the federal government already has rules for dealing with sick pigs: said Justice Elena Kagan, "The federal law establishes rules for handling …
Some scientists have said that pigs wallow in mud because they lack sweat glands and need an alternate way to stay cool. However, one researcher thinks it may be the other way around: maybe they "did not evolve functional sweat glands like other ungulates because they liked wallowing so much." They may have retained the…
[SNOW BOAR-D: Horace Spot and Hector Hog, both Kuni pigs, enjoy the recent snowfall. Ruthin, North Wales, December 28. Additional shot after the jump. Images via Pacific Coast News Online.]
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Hooters CEO Coby Brooks' turn on Undercover Boss: "There are lines you don't cross." Good to know at a company whose female employees have to sign their assent to "joking and innuendo based on female sex appeal." [Mediaite]
• Dr. Edwin Erin, who, as we mentioned earlier today
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What would A.A. Milne say? Pigs are suffering from flu; bears are being abused for "medicine"; now, thousands of kangaroos are being shot to death in Australia. [Times, HuffPo, The Awl, Guardian]
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A farm worker holds a piglet and two of the three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother last week at a zoo in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. A pig at a farm in eastern Ukraine agreed to nurse the three little tigers together with a dozen of its own piglets. — AP
Olga Murray, who lives in California, wanted to keep poor Nepalese families from selling their daughters into slavery. So she's offering them pigs instead. Murray founded a non-profit called The Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, which gives piglets — which, grown, fetch the same $35-75 buyers would pay for a girl…
Mm, pork may be delicious, but is it a wrinkle fighter? The FDA has approved a new porcine collagen filler that is said to last longer than old skool collagen derived from bovines (question: WTF are these people putting in their faces? The entire contents of a butcher shop?). Dermatologists are all abuzz about the…
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a piglet was born with a series of heart-shaped spots on him. Usually such biological anomalies are from places like Japan, where all things cute seem to originate, but this little guy is from a farm in Gloucester, England, and was given the appropriate name of Valentine. [Daily Mail]
