If you happen to be vegetarian, and you keep a small farm, what would happen if a friend contributed a piglet to your family? We know about bacon and ham, but what would the pig offer in a barnyard that does not prepare animals for the butcher?
Pigs have a reputation for being quietly wise. They have a most acute sense of smell. This makes sense given that in the wild, animals in the pig family search for tasty roots and fungi with their flat noses close to the ground. They are known to be helpful to humans in locating wild truffles in the woods.
I don't know much about pigs (or hogs, or boars), so I don't know the answer to my questions. Would a pig (a mammal like dogs, cats and humans) make a good friend? Would the domesticated pig we know today survive in the wild?
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