I live in an apartment.
It’s not about your justification of feasible. It’s about the pigs life. It ain’t fair.
I knew someone who had one in NYC, but they had a decent backyard and ran a gardening supply store. The pig was adorable and behaved like a dog.
(Shout-out to Crest Hardware for any Brooklynites)
I went to college with a guy who had a tea cup pig in a major city, he would take it on walks and use it to pick up girls. Worked out for him somehow.
Even a “teacup” pig is like 80lbs full grown, pigs really fuck up your floors
My mini is about 150#., but don’t picture a dog that big! They’re dense and compact. An 80# pig would look like a 40# dog. My 135# Akita would have looked like a monster compared to Master Piggles.
Haha, you won’t find many better ways to punish yourself, or the pig!!
why you will want that?
No.
It’s only feasible for about 3 months. Then it will become destructive and smelly.
This is a feature of the pig, as in another few months they’ll be market weight and you’ll want to kill them.
Pig owner here. Keeping a pig in an apartment is going to be a little rough. You’d have to get them used to letting you put a harness on and walk them like a dog. I own my home, so I put in a huge dog door, worked great.
Probably the biggest problem is their intelligence and destructiveness. You’d have a huge job keeping a pig from getting bored when you’re gone. Maybe they can be crate trained? Mine figured out 3 different ways to get into the beer, even defeating a baby lock, and got hammered. He does love him some beer.
Hooves were a huge pain when my pig lived inside. They never got a chance to wear normally and I played hell getting him back and forth to the only vet in the area that would trim him. Even the local farrier had never done a pig. All that hassle, and I live on the edge of town in a redneck suburb. I seriously doubt you’re going to find a large animal vet in the city. You could probably work out the hoof thing with a rasp and 3 or 4 beers (for the pig, but you’ll both need that to get through the ordeal).
If it’s a male, you’ll probably want to trim his tusks once or twice a year. I got that done on the nail salon trips.
So, you’d have to get the pig used to a harness and car rides, find a vet or farrier for his hooves, and crate train him.
Oh, one other small thing. Once or twice a year, depending on the animal, pigs “blow coat”. This is not anything like shedding. ALL OF THEIR HAIR FALLS OUT AT ONCE. So there’s that to consider. :)
Oh, one other small thing. Once or twice a year, depending on the animal, pigs “blow coat”. This is not anything like shedding. ALL OF THEIR HAIR FALLS OUT AT ONCE. So there’s that to consider. :)
Honestly not very different from my late Shiba Inu
your pig sounds cool as fuck
Photos would help
Been a couple of years, but here he is after he got out and the guy on the next street drugged him to take him off to the farm.
Lady called: “Is that your signs out ‘bout missin’ a pig? My lowlife nephew got him and is fixin’ to take him to the farm. You best hurry!”
Talked to the cops first because I didn’t want to go over there armed. Supervisor said just go ask, be cool, call us if there’s any hassle.
“BTW, you the guy that had a bear in his house last Christmas? I was on that call!”
Life in NW Florida. 🙄
You have to elaborate on the beer drinking haha. What is the beer stored in? Does the pig just rip open cans or what?
First he found my Keystone 15-pack on the table and somehow got it down. Next he learned to bounce the cabinet door open with his snout. NEXT he learned to get in that same cabinet with a baby lock.
And yes, he punctures the cans and slorps it up. Came home one day and the floor was barely sticky. He gets it ALL.
Had some young friends over one night drinking and he was being a bit of an ass. Gave him 3 beers to chill him out. He was dying for a fourth when I put water back in the bowl. Swear to god, everyone saw it, he turned his nose up in the air and huffed off. Like father like son.
I had a coworker who lived in a condo with a pet pig. Not sure of the details exactly, but she said they were very clean animals.
Not cool. What will americans do without their president?
I was in The City once and saw someone walking their pig. Lease contract had cats and dogs but not pigs. I didn’t know the people so their place could have been a sty.
Pigs are cleaner than any dog, pretty much on par with a cat except they have to shit outside. My pig got caught out having to poop when he was tiny. He had a conniption fit to get out of the car.
Pigs are brilliant but dangerous structural engineers—as soon as they have access to ground next to a building they set about devising ways to undermine its foundations.
It’s bad enough when it’s just barns and outbuildings, but if one gets loose in the center of a major city it’ll start toppling skyscrapers like Godzilla.
Kept a wild piglet I found for just a couple of hours. Goddamned animal almost got under my porch foundation. Pigs are mad strong and crazy smart. They will get what they want.
It isn’t, they weigh hundreds of pounds as adults.
I assume they mean the little pet style ones, that are like chunky dog weights.
Still too much for an apartment.
Those often turn out to be piglets. And they get big fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_pig
Miniature pigs generally reach their full size in about four years, and may live for up to fifteen. Some may reach a height of 50 cm (20 in) at the shoulder and a body length of 100 cm (40 in).[4]
Mini pigs don’t. Mine’s about 150 pounds and doesn’t look nearly as big as that sounds.
I heard that there aren’t mini pigs - just pigs that their owners partially starve to keep little. I’m no pig rancher so idk tho
Well, there are small breeds of pig; potbelly pigs usually get only 150-250 lbs for example.
You can’t say that’s small when more than half the world’s fully grown adult humans weigh less than that.
You might be surprised. I’m 145# and look way bigger than him. They’re crazy dense and short. Were he a dog you’d probably guess him at 60-70 pounds.
LOLOL
WE HAVE CHICKENS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN PHILLY (not ours, some neighbors)
Yes, GO HAM!.
SCREW THE RULES!!!
😎
Like no joke I literally hear the “Rooster Yelling” (idk what u call it) every day at around 4AM - 5AM (Eastern Standard Time)
Edit: Okay its not center city, its more like the “suburb” areas of Philly.
It’s crowing. If you have space, then go for it in town. The rules are there for sound (roosters can be really loud) and the smell. If nobody complains, then no harm no foul.
It’s not a “rules” issue it’s an animal welfare issue.
Apparantly nobody in my vicinity cares cuz its been going on for a while and nobody ever reported it even though its technically illegal to have childens on any land less then X acres, which basically includes the entire city.
Apparantly Philly has a “no snitching” culture.
The chickens are probably fine. You can have chickens in a backyard, provided it’s properly secured and you take care of them. You absolutely cannot have a pig in an apartment.
You can absolutely have a “mini” pig in an apartment. They don’t need any more space than a large dog. But in my longer comment I spell out why it’s going to be a PITA.
Ask yourself why nobody else has a pet pig in an apartment.
TBF, that question is probably what brought OP here.
