What you should know before you get

Whether for the purchase of a pig as a pet, you decide for any reason, you should know some important information.

Pigs are highly intelligent animals and can be excellent companions. Very quickly (a couple of days) to learn hygiene. They will walk, at a specified location (e.g. cat toilet) or they will go out like a dog. Raise a piglet, requires a huge dose of patience and kind of consistency. The problem is the inherent greed, pig and curiosity. Pig, for example, very quickly understand that it must not open the refrigerator and spontaneously to operate, yet it will still try! Most of the hogfather, you can't let alone in the apartment, for example. If you go to work because they enjoy such a mess, what even you can't imagine. Even if you build on your head, it will be repeated whenever you let them alone. Pigs require very much contact with the owner and not remain alone. Pig, his high intelligence, used exclusively for their own benefit. They'll learn very quickly where what, but it never will be done on request. Pristrci up a Chair to the table to get to eat. Move to the garden chair in the shade, if it is the sun hot, moves into the shadow of the bowl with water, so it shouldn't be hot. Unnoticed, they enter into the pantry when you forget to close quietly behind privrou door and feast on the inventory, and with a latch on the fridge will one two. Drawers, door, furniture or kitchen, nothing is for pig, no obstacle. Their stubbornness is enforced, the elephant's memory and in doing naschvalu are the champions! Coexistence with prasatkem is on the other hand many strengths. On the skin and coat the hogfather has not yet been identified. Not feel, even if zmoknou. They can communicate, the intelligence level of a four-year of the child. Most of the hogfather is very cuddly and his affection and love are amazingly clear.

As regards the breed, all pig, offered in our country, such as miniprasatka, swine vorisci. Pigs have no bloodlines, and in herd-books shall be entered only with us individuals breeds of meat. Breeders selected individuals of dwarfism and then conceded with other small individuals. Never know what your pet will grow. The question of the weight is very important, because not everyone who buys a pet in the belief that in adulthood will weigh 15 kg, with love and care for 20 years (it will) and 50-pound porizka. Of course, we have at the Club and a few very small specimens, but they are the exception. Unfortunately, even very small parents that farmers will not guarantee that the pet will be the same in adulthood. Pigs are sexually mature at six months and you for most farmers do not have assurance that you are at least 2 experts parents old and half of the year and therefore disabled adult. Often, however, that even small (40 kg) of adult individuals have descendants, who will be in adulthood weigh 70 kg or more.

The next question is selection of sex. The hogfather is ruled by a Matriarchy. Girls therefore tend to be more dominant, subordinating, tend to have worse puberty (the hogfather is around the second year of age) and also is to be expected that, after the first sexual cycle (around the fourth month) it is necessary to let the gilt castrate. The castration of girls is much greater compared to the castration kid action, requires the total anesthesia, rehabilitation is far longer and the entire process is financially more demanding. The boy often buy already castrated but will remain on you, not the castration to be afraid, this is a trivial procedure that requires only local anesthesia, recovery is short and the financial burden is negligible. Boys from the rules tend to be quieter, so they don't have a tumultuous puberty, subordinating women mainly members of the family and can be better controlled. The problem occurs at the time of maturity, when the boys grow fangs and klektaky. These teeth are the sexual character of pig boy. These tusks protrude from the mouth and the risk of unintentional, serious injury, the other members of the household. In some cases, even the direction of the growth of teeth so unhappy, that grow in the face and the vet's intervention is required, the majority in the general anesthesia,that is for adult pig, a big problem.

As regards health care, it is necessary to have in the vicinity of one of the specialists on the disease, because most veterinarians, from urban dispensaries and clinics, see pig as in high school, have no experience, and you are responsible, you just refuse to treat a pig.

Finally, you must also know that any pig's weighing 200 kg in factory farms, or miniprasatko on the couch in the apartment, the rules governing economic animal and is subject to the same regulation. This is going to care for the registration of a pig in the Bohemian Club, the owners of the hogfather, raised in the household. Closer to legislation we pay in one of the next parts.

IN ANY CASE, NEPORIZUJTE MINIPRASATKO, WHERE:

do you live in a rented apartment or House, pig is unusual in the animal and the owners of the property or the neighbors with his breeding may not agree,
you live in an apartment or a House badly accessible after the steep and slippery stairs, a pig, normally difficult to overcomes stairways and if they reach a large mass, the stairs is you cannot carry,
you do not have the possibility of walking in the garden or around your residence,
for only miniprasatko--despite assurances from the breeders, who promises to the size of cats, assuming compliance with dubious recommendations, such as hunger, pigs grow up to three years and is miniprasatkem, which reaches a weight of 40-120 kilograms,
you are the impatient man, raising a pig, it requires a really great patience,
your neighbors is noise, pigs can be very loud, especially in the svinky period of oestrus,
you're not consistent, as soon as your placing a piggy bank one step, it will remain so forever,
If it is in your list of values, high resting your garden with flowers, a pig, bred her to you in good faith, rozryji,
You cannot sacrifice in the first months of the piggy bank enough time and energy for the socialization and education,
do you have other animals, but you do not have enough time to ensure that could become each other with prasatkem
do you have fear of the reactions, which you can with the prasatkem between some people unexpectedly cause (surprise, jeering and sometimes resistance),
you do not have to be paid to the piggy bank all of its leisure time, pigs are the stadova animals and in desperate need of the company, if they are forced to be alone, they can be aggressive and even apartment is in front of them in the safe.

And finally, a couple of lines from our colleague Mr Paul Long

If you have chosen, that piglet, despite all the challenges just skyrockets, know that it's more of us, to whom little pig:

he grows up, more than ever,
Despite all the intentions, falls asleep at night,
slap their hoofs in the wild dream, sometimes in the ribs,
ozuzla and spits out the end of the tkanicek for all available boots
run the carpets, rugs, mats and bathroom
spapa hips, delayed from time to time purchase,
decisively will at the door, which he doesn't like,
will do, since each bite a stranger, who admires him and love him to report thereon to the confectionery,
will what with kitchen on the leg (which Dmitri fyodorovitch really hurts)
rozryje lawn and gardens in order to help with the sophomore studying journalism,
quits the regular and the occasional foreign holidays,
look into my eyes as equal,
gradually life changes and an entirely new dimension,
She kinda grows to heart so that no other animal is never changed.

And welcome among us.

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