Good Samaritan ...

When Australian woman Ksana Natalenko bid $320 to buy a pig that had turned up at a Sydney childcare centre, she thought she was giving it a good home. As she's quoted today in The Daily Telegraph "I imagined we would be watching television together" which makes me wonder how much Green Acres (with famous, almost human, pig Arnold) figured in her deliberations. TV watching is not what the 100kg pot-bellied pig, Bob, is focused on. He's "hot to trot" with only mating on his mind, as Ksana found out when she went to collect him, only to have him try to mount her. At that point, Ksana, who also has dogs at home, knew that the whole "take in a pig and save him from the abbatoir" scenario was not going to work. Let's forget for a moment that her neighbours, having heard about the scheme, have supposedly raised it as an issue with their local council. But back to Bob. Unable to keep him at home, Ksana has found alternate lodgings for him – for $20 a day. She is trying to find a more permanent solution – excluding an obvious one, especially as butchers have said that Bob is not suitable for eating, although word is that "there are certainly people out there who would slaughter him to make salami". (I am not going to think about that TOO much as I fear salami would become "off limits" for me.) Ksana has approached various agricultural schools and farms but has yet had no takers. An interesting dilemma.