09/23/2025
“Just call me: Sir Oreo the Romeo, Stealer of Ladies Hearts… oh yeaaaahh!” (Oreo 🐷🍪)
A cool fact on this $2 Tuesday: pigs are the ultimate prey-animal protectors! Aside from being naturally on guard and attentive, excellent at communication and evasive tactics, they have tough skin on their backs and sharp teeth. Boars, especially, develop their own armor - the skin on their shoulders thickening into what feels like hard plates similar to the suits of medieval knights — this is to protect their neck, heart and lungs during a fight. They also grow knives - literally - out of their mouths. Sharp, pointy, long daggers called tusks that can tear something or someone open in milliseconds (females get small tusks, but the male’s, even neutered, can grow several inches) .*
That makes pigs sound dangerous— and they can be — any living thing can be dangerous — which is even more reason pigs should be respected and admired! But those defenses are not used unless needed and most pigs are big softies who just want to love and be loved ❤️🐖
🐷🍪Oreo is our first older boar. He has the developed shoulder armor and matching mouth daggers, although his tusks appear to have been trimmed at some point and are shorter and dull tipped. Oreo is our resident Romeo — he is a complete flirt with ALL the ladies. Although he has special crushes on Suzy Q. and Pepa Faith, Oreo can be found sweet talking, trying to snuggle with, and offering generous amounts of snoot kisses to all of the girls! ❤️
🐷🍪Oreo is scheduled for his neuter October 13th and while we thought we had raised enough funds, neuters are based on weight and, well, Oreo LOVES his acorns and now weighs more than he did when we scheduled his neuter, Lol! 🌰 This $2 Tuesday, if you can spare a cup of coffee, a pop, energy drink, donut, bag of chips, upsize on fries… all things that usually cost $2 or more… please consider donating that money towards Oreo’s neuter! EVERY penny helps!! 💵 ThOINK you!! 🐷🍪
*Stevey is coming into better control of his tusks and it is fun to watch him put them to work! I always give him my empty coconut milk and coconut water containers - made from a thin but sturdy, lined cardboard. He loves tearing them in half in less than a blink of an eye, then licking them clean and tossing them around in play for a bit before I add them to the trash.
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