Pigs are widely misunderstood as being dirty, lazy and unintelligent creatures, largely because of the environments we’re used to seeing them in. The cramped and confined environment of a factory farm ...

There is a myth that pigs are squalid animals, justifying a falsehood that they should be fed on dirty and rejected foodstuff. This could never be any further from the truth - pigs are clean animals.

When we think of shelter animals waiting to be adopted, we typically think of dogs and cats. However, every so often, I come across a potbellied pig in one of our local shelters. In fact, I recently ...