Pigs
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Pig Quotations and Sounds
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs
treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill, attr.
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| Gentlemen, a pig looks all right to a pig. |
The pig is brighter than most people like to consider. It may not show up at first sight, just as with the gentleman - who is one and who is not?
The pig was an object of worship in some primitive religions. [Edmund Cohen. Jung and the Scientific Attitude p. 147)
Pig Sounds
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| Chrum chrum, pigs are intelligent and feel a lot. |
What the pig grunts
Chinese (Mandarin): hu-lu hu-lu
Danish: øf
English: oink oink
Finnish: röh röh
French: groin groin
Hungarian: röf-röf-röf
Japanese: buubuu
Korean: kkool-kkool
Norwegian: nøff-nøff
Polish: chrum chrum
Russian: khryu-khryu
Spanish (Spain): oink-oink
Swedish: nöff
Pig Proverbs
Don't buy a pig in a poke [Ap 463].
One does not feed the swine for its own sake [Po].
One cannot have bacon and keep the pig too [Sx].
Where the pigsty is open, the pigs run out [Sx].
Live with a hog and you'll grunt like one [Ap 302].
The voice of a pig can hardly be disguised [Ap 153, with].
It is not necessary to be a pig in order to raise one [Ap 464, partial].
You can't root with the hogs and have a clean nose [Ap 303].
A swine over fat, is the cause of his own bane [Dp 103].
You can lead a pig to water, but you can't make him drink. (Or horse) [Ap 464].
Pig Intelligence
From pig to computer expert, with humility
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| Buubuu - pigs are intelligent and feel a lot. |
On the bright side of the human race, more concerns for animal rights have grown after profuse and blunt use of these animals. But still pigs and castrated pigs (hogs) are fattened in hard-headed ways. Industrial farming sees to it. The inherent good, natural value of a pig may be abused or severely suppressed. Prejudice sees to it, as the near-proverb says, "Give a hog a bad name and hang him". There is a subtle play on words right there. As you dwell on the new, coined saying, it is possible to get more out of it. That is what inherent brightness (cleverness, intelligence) is for. [STRIP].
The documentary "Look Who Is Talking Babe"
Pigs and swine have learnt to grovel. So they are naturally quite apt at handling joysticks. In a British documentary presented on the TVN channel in Norway on Sunday, September 6, 1998 from 9 AM and nearly half and hour, the animal psychologist, Professor Stanley Curtis, said the pig is the smartest animal on earth after man. Quite helpless in the hands of man, still rather intelligent in its ways: most animals are like that.In the program, pigs excelled in using computers, and dogs failed. So if the pig is not worthy of a place in the pet cemetary, why the dog?
Showing their snout-user eminence by simple computer games: Pigs
Dr. Curtis' research study involved joystick-handling of easy computer games. Apes, dogs, and pigs were allowed to show off. After two weeks of easygoing adjustments, pigs excelled. But some dogs could not master the tasks even after a year of animal training. They have no built-in patterns of using their snouts to push joysticks as pigs can do with roots and in hunting for truffles. We have indicated a possible source of error in interpreting the results here. Anyway, the two pigs in the study, Omelett and Hamlet, were about as good as old-man-looking chimpanzees.
We can look on pigs like little children. There are two ways of doing that. Maybe it could help to surround yourself by pigs, or keep one of them as a pet. Some do that. The pot-bellied pig has recently become quite popular among pet owners in America. Pet pigs are not only smart, but also
readily trained, affectionate, curious, playful, clean, generally quiet, odor free, and usually non-allergenic. Many owners consider their pigs an integral part of the family and involve them in all their activities. [▾Link]
However, without appropriate stimulation and careful training, they can become easily bored, and possibly destructive. [▾Link]
One of the things to learn from pigs as house pets, is that an intact male (not neutered male) has a strong, foul odour and becomes sexually active when he is six to eight weeks old - rather early. Another thing to learn is that pigs can "freak out" by stress or fear rather easily. It has such a built-in survival pattern to serve it in the free, it may be suggested.
❖ It is not just the bacon that speaks for the pig any longer.
Pigs in a Further Perspective
Pig Definitions and Pig History
A dictionary defines a pig as a young domesticated swine not yet sexually mature. More broadly it is a wild or domestic swine. It can also be an animal related to or resembling the pig. When the pig is called pork, it is the dressed carcass of a young swine weighing less than sixty kilograms.
The word is also used about a dirty, gluttonous, or repulsive person, and in slang it is an immoral woman or a police officer. Grunt to that - Amen.
Most domestic pigs derived from the European wild pig. There is little difference between wild pigs, or boars, and domestic swine. Wild pigs are thought to be up at night and eating nearly everything they can get, that is, they are nocturnal omnivores. They may live up to twenty-five years or more. Pigs have a natural desire to survive Christmas, in other words.
There are many breeds, and some pigs are not so big. The Yorkshire is probably the most popular breed in the world. It was produced in the 1700s by crossing the large white native pig of North England with the smaller, fatter, white Chinese pig.
Hog Humility
Ancient Hebrews had many stern custums. One was to cut of the foreskin of old and young humans, another was to leave the pig out of their schemes and not eat his flesh. It was obviously a good deal for the pig! But nowadays pig sties on unhappy farms function according to the pattern of "concentration camps" in that trapped beings are put there to serve and die and be made use of -
Hogs are not circumcised but castrated, in other words humbled. One should see the difference between castration and circumcision; that is free and sound counsel. And we do not think anyone really needs to maim himself by having his foreskin cut off either, just to make it clear. If you have seen a horribly fat man and wondered about his belly, the big thing is that the skin is able to can stretch surprisingly much. That is the overlooked foreskin point in some medicinal cases. But we refrain from going into details about it here.
Sound Decency in these Waters, Please
Tactless remarks compare men with pigs and swine. But a fable may do it without anyone in particular. Try that approach instead. For, after all, swine seem a lot brighter than silly girls that love their little dogs far more than others of their own kind. As for silly men, they do not regulate their marriage and breeding patterns as good as pigs in nature. For there are hundreds of thousands of men that work as milk cows in Scandinavia. The point is: One should try not to look down on pigs and abuse their names, because there are good reasons for it . . .
Modern studies have revealed such interesting facets of the pig's mental capacities that a local professor of education linked "pig lib" to "woman's lib". Today it is quite common knowledge that chimpanzees share 98% or 99% of their genes with us humans. The pig too is quite close, and in different ways:
(a) The sweet and sensitive animal, has organs that may be transplanted to humans, the size and build-up (morphology) of its intestive organs come close to those of humans, the skin may look a bit like human skin at a distance, and so on.
(b) Professor Stanley Curtis ranks the pig as number two among intelligent beings on the planet. Others suggest humans; primates (apes and monkeys); dolphins and other whales; and next pigs. What matters is that researchers insist that the pig is a bright animal, very sensitive, and is treated to his damage because it may be used and abused by many marked with much lack of compassion.
Find your level, pick your choice and let it speak of you
1. The highest is to let pigs be pigs, free. If they want to be left alone as far as can be, that has to be respected as long as they do not endanger themselves, others, or valuables. Little children should be taught not to gamble with these three things too.
2. The second highest is to strive for good animal habitats and animals righs, and animals cannot do that. Good and decent people can, and we are improving. By letting pigs be pigs in pig habitats, no great problems need to occur. That would be good for many home-owners and pigs. "Live and let live" requires such tact.
5. Further down the scale of use and abuse the pig is made use of for profit: Farming excels in much "industrial" handling and coping that humiliates and debases other beings - and thereby the farmers or their families themselves, it may be halfway guessed. People harden their hearts to their own future harm, and do not excel in that way.
7. Finally, the pig is murdered and the corpse eaten under the cover of another name, like pork, but not raw.
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired," declares Mark Twain. But the pig was made earlier.
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Literature
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main ed.), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dp: Fergusson, Rosalind. The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
Po: Holm, Pelle. Ordspråk och talesätt. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1973.
Sx: Beyer, Horst, und Annelies Beyer. Sprichtwörterlexikon: Sprichwörter und Sprichwörterliche Ausdrücke aus Deutchen Sammlungen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zus Gegenwart. München: Bech, 1985.
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