lacook
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- Dec 5, 2010
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- Boat Info
- same as Cpt. Sundancer
- Engines
- same as Cpt. Sundancer
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.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!
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