bringing a potbelly pig on boat

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Gimme Time said:
OK, True Story. Friend of mine and I were out of town for a few days for a meeting somewhere and he called home to check on the kids and wife. Seems they were supposed to be headed to one of the store that sells pets, you know, dogs, cats, hermit crabs and so on a so on.

So when he's talking to his little girl at that time (she's finished college now so it was awhile ago) she tells daddy that the got a new pet. Yes you guessed it Sally was a Pot Bellied Pig. At that time Sally weighed maybe 5-6 pounds (Not much or a Porker) and was easily carried around by his daughter and younger son.

Well needless to say Sally became the family pet that day and had free run on the home for quite a few years. AS Sally go a little bigger it became a little more trouble to get Sally into the family van to take her to the vet's office. It wasn't some many years that Phil had to come up with a new way to get Sally into the family van that he came up with a great idea. He'd pull the car up beside the bank in the front yard and help Sally walk across a walk way they put together to get Sally in the van.

Sure enough it wasn't much longer before the had to take the second row of seats out of the family van as Sally would get stuck between the front and middle row seats so you can see the need to remove the middle seat.

Things got really bad when Sally could no longer turn around in the van to walk back down the ramp Phil had made to get out at the vet's office. Also several years had passed and as Sally had gotten so big it became apparent that Sally needed to live in the back yard as the she had gotten a little big to be roaming around the house any more and she could no longer go up the stairs to the second floor. Must say she had no problem going down the stairs, you just didn't want to be in front of her as you would become the cushion between her and the wall at the bottom of the stairs.

Yes Sally went everywhere even down to the River House on the Potomac when she was smaller but after awhile the van wasn't big enough to haul Sally and the whole family so Sally got her on cottage out back at home in the back yard. Sally really was a great pet for the kids growing up and never complained. She didn't mind what you had for dinner as she liked everything even if it was a week or two old in the frig or freezer for that matter.

The moral of the story is don't sweat the small stuff cause what ever floats your boat is fine with me. Since we have an aft cabin we just ruled out all put belly pigs because the wall at the bottom of the stairs isn't as strong as one at home.

Certainly hope no one is offended just thought I'd give you and insight to another friends Pot Bellied Pig life.

PS: Sorry to say Sally passed away a few years ago and no, no one got to eat her either.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good day!
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People learn to love their pets. Sense that time a lot of research in the area of feed and food for Pot Bellies and has advanced. A mature pig will be approximately 13-20 inches tall, will an average weight being 130-150 pounds, but can range in size from 90 – 175. Overeating/overfeeding can lead to obesity in your pig, resulting in a weight well over 200 pounds. When Ko-Jac was given to us as a small 4 pound piglet, we started researching ourselves and talking to other pig owners, our vet, and the petting zoo owner where Ko-Jac came from.

Thanks for sharing Sally's story. Glad she had a good life. We have had to make some adjustments in our home and vehicles as well for Ko-Jac but all have been worth it.
Happy New Years
The Cooks & Ko-Jac
 
sfergson727 said:
Ok, not to be argumentative here, but Lacook, I'm calling you out on this one. Earlier you made the case that a potbellied pig has as much in common with a common barnyard pig as a person does to a chimp. You must have a pretty low opinion of people or a high opinion of chimps.

Simple research proves you incorrect on both counts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-bellied_pig

"The pot-bellied pig (Vietnamese: Lợn ỉn) is a breed of domesticated pig originating in Vietnam.
Considerably smaller than standard American or European farm pigs, most adult pot-bellied pigs are about the size of a medium- or large-breed dog, though their bodies are denser at a weight of 27 to 136 kg (60 to 300 lb). Pot-bellied pigs can be easily discerned from other pig breeds by their size, upright ears and straight tail. Pigs with fat rolls over their eyes or a belly that touches the ground are easy visual indicators that the pig is overweight. Although they have a pot belly and a swayed back, these are not indicative of weight. Pigs in proper weight still have the sway and belly, but the hip bones can easily be felt with minimal pressure and the eyes (whole socket) should be easily visible.
Because pot-bellied pigs are in the same species as ordinary farmyard pigs and wild boars, they are capable of interbreeding. The Swedish Agriculture Ministry has been assisting Vietnam with its pork production by introducing large breeds of pigs into Vietnam since the mid-1980s.[citation needed]

Pot-bellied pig that is not within the proper weight range.


Today, the Vietnamese and Swedish governments have realized that the indigenous Vietnamese pig sub-species exist only in mountainous Vietnam and Thailand. The Vietnamese government has begun to subsidize local farmers that continue to raise the indigenous pot-bellied pigs because it realizes they are neither as prolific nor as large as other breeds.

standing pot-bellied pig


Boars, un-neutered male pigs, become fertile at a young age, long before they are completely physically mature. Pot-bellied pigs are considered fully grown by six years of age, when the epiphyseal plates in their spines finally close."




Let's strive for accuracy here on CSR, okay? :smt043:lol::smt043Not only are pot bellied pigs the same species, it seems that other cultures eat them as well. So, all the jokes about eating the pig were not so far off-based, not by a long shot.

Don't let the jokes bother you. I've joked on many occasions that I'd like to kill and eat my cat (wife's pet) on many occasions and I hardly ever let it bother me.

On further research, it seems you don't have to look to far to find people eating them in Texas, and Mexico as well as overseas. I've also learned though, that pot-bellied pigs are the fourth smartest animals on the planet, surpassing dogs and cats by a good measure, so I can see why they make good pets. I'll stick to eating dumb old farm animals.
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I am well educated on the reality of pot belly pigs, but thanks. Call me out? REALLY? Wow someone said to me in humor "My kids are bringing two hams over for dinner, hope they are not close relatives of Ko-Jac's". In a light and humors way my response was "nope they hams are about as closely related to Ko-Jac as you or I are to Chimps".

You are right about one thing in all of this I have found there are a selected few people that have posted on this thread I would NEVER want anything to do with in real life and have had way more then enough of in internet posts.

I have been accused of being thin skinned, no humor, and now what being uneducated about my own pet?

YET: on the better note of things look who is spending time and energy looking up pot belly pigs and look who is taking time and energy to read it.

Like the youth of today say "WORD!"
 
sfergson727 said:
Who'd thought the longest running thread in CSR history would be about a pig named Ko-jac.

THE PIG WILL LIVE FOREVER IN CSR LORE! and our grandchildren will tell stories of his CSR follies.
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REALLY, awesome. Now maybe we can actually get back to and get more insight in to the original question for the up and coming problem. A way to get Ko-Jac from the beach to the boat. Feasible with in budget, size and usability and safety!
 
lacook said:
... A way to get Ko-Jac from the beach to the boat. Feasible with in budget, size and usability and safety!
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What was it Flip Wilson, the comedian, used to say?

The Devil made me do it!


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lacook said:
REALLY, awesome. Now maybe we can actually get back to and get more insight in to the original question for the up and coming problem. A way to get Ko-Jac from the beach to the boat. Feasible with in budget, size and usability and safety!
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After 376 posts on the subject you're still hoping to get a decent answer? Wow, you are wonderfully optimistic.

I had been ignoring this thread until now, when I got bored watching Canada beat up on the Russians. I read the first 30 or 40 posts and then jumped to the end to see where things had progressed to. Good for you for hanging in there.

For a boat the size of your 260, there likely aren't any options that will meet your scope of being within budget, size, and safety... let's face it - a 90 pound pig that doesn't swim probably isn't a very good candidate to be moving from beach to boat...
 
I had a pet rock once. :grin:

But all the other people threw his brothers & sisters & aunts & uncles & cousins at me. :smt089

So I had to get rid of him. :smt043 .:smt043 . :smt043 .:smt043
 
Wayne's World said:
I had a pet rock once. :grin:

But all the other people threw his brothers & sisters & aunts & uncles & cousins at me. :smt089

So I had to get rid of him. :smt043 .:smt043 . :smt043 .:smt043
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Wayne,,, You just aint right in the head:grin:!
 
When Cpt Sundancer has the PIG HOIST all figured out and working, I will make sure to post plenty of pictures and video's. Then a lot of you will be eating words, which I myself will find amusing. I do totally agree on one thing said recently, and I have grown tired of this thread. I have stated my opinions, attempted to make my point WAY to many times. Happy 2011 to all and a great boating season.
 
Screw that having a dog or cat or pig on the boat. :smt021 .

I'm getting one of these. :grin: . :smt043 . :smt043 . :smt043 . :smt043

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The Horse you can hold in your hands!. :thumbsup:

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Wayne's World said:
Screw that having a dog or cat or pig on the boat. :smt021 .

I'm getting one of these. :grin: . :smt043 . :smt043 . :smt043 . :smt043

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The Horse you can hold in your hands!. :thumbsup:

http://www.tbart.net/
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NO NO,,,, I have first dibs on the horse on the boat!!!! I claimed it first man!!!!
 
lacook said:
When Cpt Sundancer has the PIG HOIST all figured out and working, I will make sure to post plenty of pictures and video's. Then a lot of you will be eating words, which I myself will find amusing. I do totally agree on one thing said recently, and I have grown tired of this thread. I have stated my opinions, attempted to make my point WAY to many times. Happy 2011 to all and a great boating season.
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We have all poke fun at KoJac, but there is also some good advice here Lacook. There is a solution here for you. I hope you find it.

The folks here will go out of their way to help you with a boat problem, so your sarcaism about folks here is really uncalled for. There has been situations where someone was on their way, had a problem and CSR members have dropped what they were doing to find a solution. Thus salvaging the weekend for a fellow member.

Please post pics as some of us here at CSR have a hard time believing without pictures!:grin: Ask Wayne!!! A rock???LOL

Good luck!
 
Please post pics as some of us here at CSR have a hard time believing without pictures!:grin: Ask Wayne!!!
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Yep if you don't have pics to backup what you're saying !!.

The guys on here will do a Rodney King act on your a$$. :grin: .


NO NO,,,, I have first dibs on the horse on the boat!!!! I claimed it first man!!!!
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Ok you go first. :smt001
 
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