Am I mad?

[Milims]

He really is a cutey! He could end up an Ish mascot at this rate!! lol

[Thurston Garden]

Nooooo! I'm gonna have to eat him

Ish BBQ??

[red]

call him pig-roast then.

he wont be so cute when he is bigger... we hope.. for your sake

[marshlander]

Ainslie, ball pens were invented by Biro and the first pic shows piglet laying next to one to show how tiny he is!

[Millymollymandy]

I was just about to tell Ainslie what a biro was! I always assumed Biro was an American term we'd adopted, but according to Wiki, Mr Biro was Hungarian!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl ... %ADr%C3%B3

So what do Americans and Canadians call a biro then?

P.S. Little piggy is very cute!

[ainslie]

"So what do Americans and Canadians call a biro then? "

I don't know what others call them, but here in Huron county anyway we always used to call them a "BIC" pen because those were the initials on the pen itself.

[Ellendra]

We call them Bic pens.

In 1950 Marcel Bich bought the patent for the ballpoint pen. However his company is named "Bic". The two names are actually pronounced the same, the H is silent. However, most english speakers would have pronounce "Bich" as the swear word, so the H was dropped from the product name.

[Millymollymandy]

I think of razors when I think of Bic! But I do remember Bic pens as well - I think they were yellow.

[Chickenlady]

Whatever he is called, or not, I couldn't eat him...this is why I only keep chickens I think. Once they have become a little friend they become one of the family!

(although I could kill and eat my teenage daughter sometimes...)

[Tigerhair]

He'll make lovely bacon. He's very cute though...

[ainslie]

Yes, bacon....hmmm, does that mean he has "bacon breath?" I've used that name many a time on my fine swine, usually by the third time they've run past me in the wrong direction!

[Thurston Garden]

Sad to say that Biro/Spider Pig did not make it. When we got up this morning his breathing was shallow and laboured. He would not take any milk.

I sat down with my pig book to see what could be wrong and heard him some rustling in the straw and him squealing. I got up thinking he was shouting for his bottle, but alas he could not get breath and died within a few minutes.

I did feel so helpless. As was said earlier in this thread, we always had it in the back of our minds that he might not make it. He looked a nice healthy piglet, but was not putting on much weight. There was clearly a good reason he was so wee at birth and he never managed to get over it.

[ainslie]

So sorry to hear your news. Sometimes the littlest guys can make it, but with such small body mass it is really tough - they just don't have the resources to fight all the bugs that come along to challenge their immune system and, with a piglet being so small, a bug can take them beyond treatment in mere hours and we are powerless to help. I think you're champs for trying, please don't let this stop you from trying another time!

[red]

shame. as you say, it was probably a problem that was already there. Least you tried for him, and glad to hear his death was not prolonged.

[Annpan]

Some are just not meant to be

I am glad you gave him a comfy bed and some attention for the last few weeks, I am sure he had a happy, if short, life.