If You Give a Pig a Video Game …

The Black Friday shoppers who were
standing in line at midnight to score deals on video games weren’t necessarily
parents of teenage boys. Some of them might have been pig guardians.

It’s true: Pigs love a good video game. Surprised? Then try this one on for size: Pigs can answer to their names within
a week of being born. Yep. That skill takes people, what, two years to master?

Pigs are super-smart. In fact, they’re
classified as the fourth-smartest animal on the planet—ahead of cats and dogs (who haven’t the foggiest idea what a Wii is).

And
here are some other things that you may not know about pigs:

• They
  enjoy listening to music.
• They
  “Eskimo kiss” like humans by rubbing their noses together.
• The
  intense bond between mother pigs and their babies is just as strong as that between
  human parents and their children.
• Pigs
  are chatterboxes, and their wide range of grunts, squeaks, snarls, and snorts
  all have distinct meanings.
• Just
  like human beings, they have widely varied personalities: Pigs can be shy or
  outgoing, serious or playful.
• Piglets
  play like human children: chasing each other, pretend fighting, squealing, and
  playing with toys.

Pigs can also suffer from depression, as
many on factory farms
do. And they don’t want to
be slaughtered and turned into a centerpiece. This holiday season, serve a hearty and
delicious Field Roast
and save a pig from your table.

You may just wind up with a new favorite
gaming partner.