Rebecca DiNolfi, Vice President of the Delaware Valley Pot-bellied Association says that they are one of the cleanest, most intelligent animals that you could have as a pet. They are just like children. They cry real tears, they never forget a person, and they naturally bond with people very closely. They are easy to train and they reward you with love. But before you convert your garage into a Pot-bellied guest house, you should know that there are problems.
Some people hate pigs.
They hate pigs so much that they have forcibly taken these lovable pets from their homes, causing heartbreak and sadness to both the pigs and their keepers. In one recent case, a Connecticut woman who has had her two Pot-bellied pets for over eight years has been ordered to surrender them to the State. These old laws were designed to restrict the locations of rural farms, where chickens freely roamed the kitchen and cattle munched on the front lawn. Understandably, urban sprawl could not allow placing a housing development next to a cow pasture. And so such areas were zoned to exclude the keeping of livestock.