the other white meat

Austrian hunter makes a pig mistake
AP, 3/14/07

LINZ, Austria --This little piggy should have gone to market instead of staying home. A housebroken pet pig with an unusual black hide was mistaken for a wild boar and shot by a hunter in woods near its owner's farm in northwestern Austria, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Local officials investigated the weekend incident in the province of Upper Austria, but concluded there was no way the unidentified hunter could have realized the pig not the wild quarry he was after.

"The sow was black and completely filthy. In the heat of battle, I probably would have shot it, too," regional hunting superintendent Sepp Brandmayr told the Voecklabrucker Rundschau newspaper.

The story had a happy ending for the hunter, if not for the slain swine: He brought the carcass to the owner, who shared the pork.
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So, he ate his deceased pet?

The owner was quoted as saying, "Petunia would have wanted it this way. She used to say, When I go I wanna be smoked for eight hours on a bed of smoldering hickory."

The pig should have chosen her friends more wisely and read her Orwell.

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
~Animal Farm