TIL that The Irish Greyhound pig, was the common pig in Ireland up to the 18th and 19th centuries and it survived in domestication until the start of the 20th.
TIL that The Irish Greyhound pig, was the common pig in Ireland up to the 18th and 19th centuries and it survived in domestication until the start of the 20th.
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A hearty boy if I’ve ever seen one. Reminds me of the native Creole pig in Haiti that was wiped out based on US fears of swine flu; the crossroads of ignorance and arrogance on an international level: http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part10-slide12.html
Looks like yer ma
>The negative tone in descriptions of the pigs, it has been suggested, might be due to the difficulties faced by poor farmers having sufficient food for their pigs.
Or possibly the prejudice of the reviewer in regards to all things Irish. The entire review sounds like it could have been lifted from Thomas Carlyle’s famine diaries.
Why does it have balls on its neck?
“Survived in domestication” is an odd phrase (to me). It was a domestic pig that was extinct by the twentieth century.
Hence the saying “ are your balls stuck in your throat “ !
Looks like a similar creature to the Grice which lived on the Shetland Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grice