Pot-Bellied Pet Pigs: Mini-Pig Care And Training

By Lorrie B. Boldrick, Lorrie Blackburn, Kayla Mull, et al.

Book Overview

This book includes useful facts and information on Pet Pigs including: - Keeping pet pigs in the house - Housebreaking pigs - Keeping pet pigs in the yard - rooting and gardening - Veterinary Care,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962453102
• ISBN13: 9780962453106
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: All PUblishing Company
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

truthful and helpful

Exotic pets always mean blazing a trail, learning new things. This is a book that will help you, stay out of trouble, and have a pet like no other. Learning about your misconceptions, and what other people also, are going to believe even before meeting your pet. Your neighbors may have preconceived ideas, even prejudices. There are hidden problems when you get off the beaten path. Pigs are not dogs, but can live wonderfully in the house, pretty much like a pet dog. They are smarter. Want to be cleaner. Pigs are even more food-reward driven, but get fat fast. On the other hand, Pet pigs are not farm animals, unless you make them live like livestock. Great information in this book.

If you own a pig, you should have this book

This book is perfect for the potbellied pig owner. It is sufficiently detailed, yet not so technical as to make it unreadable by a lay person. Despite the rather silly (but amusing) cover, it is a serious and useful book. It is well-written and the authors go out of their way to make it useful to the non-veterinary person. The book is not a 1000 page tome of everything you would need to know to get a DVM degree with a specialization in potbellies; instead, it focuses on the medical issues that the PBP owner reallly needs to know - the "gotchas", so to speak. If you have a pig at home (or are looking to get a pig), you should have this book. If your vet isn't a pig specialist, RUN, don't walk to your keyboard and order this book. Oh wait, if you're reading this, you're already AT your keyboard. So just order it. That, and if you're a new owner, find a good book on pig behavior and psychology.