by Angus Rodgers <twirlip@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:59:00 -0700 (PDT), Ted
<Heather_pelling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>One lovely sign of happiness in a young piggy is called 'popcorning'
>- the animal just suddenly launches itself into the air by a few
>centimeters in an excited way (like pop corn bursting open). They
>sometimes start to do this if they think food is coming. For example
>some pigs can learn to recognise certain trigger sounds like the
>fridge door opening or knife chopping sounds and will associate this
>with a treat coming.
Being inside a cardboard house at the time is no inhibitor! It's
usually the house rather than the piggy itself that we see jumping
into the air (usually when hay is on the way).
>However don't get too excited about their
>'intellect' as, lovely as they are, intelligence is not one of their
>strong points!!!
Dumb as a rock (but much cuter).
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