Today I visited the lovely animals at Farm Animal Rescue (Australia) in Dayboro, QLD, Australia again. In the background you can see Heather, a gorgeous pig. I learned that pigs are among the 10 smartest animals on the planet. And they most resemble humans. When you touch their skin, it really feels like touching a hairy human 😉
I found this on NBC news:
“Pigs are perhaps the smartest, cleanest domestic animals known – more so than cats and dogs, according to some experts. But pigs don’t have sweat glands, so they roll around in the mud to stay cool. A sign of their cleverness came from experiments in the 1990s. Pigs were trained to move a cursor on a video screen with their snouts and used the cursor to distinguish between scribbles they knew and those they were seeing for the first time. They learned the task as quickly as chimpanzees.”
It is so fun to meet these amazing animals in person. Thank you to everyone who supports my business. You are helping me help the animals.
Heather is one of the lucky ones. She was rescued from the meat industry and gets to live out her life in this beautiful place. She is one of the fitter ones. Some of her other pig friends at Farm Animal Rescue have been bred by the meat industry to be so large so quickly to maximize profit, that they have a hard time walking around or even standing up. The pig house is at the bottom of a steep hill and some of the pigs never make it up the hill. But Heather is a sporty one. She gets up that hill and socializes with the funny humans who want to touch her and take pictures with her.
It was a great day.
T xx