pig-related

[Richard Romeo]

there was also an funny article about local laws in Germany in this week's 
Wall Street Journal that mandated that farmers needed to interact, talk, 
make eye contact w/ their pigs each day.  apparently, the pigs were not much 
amused.

rich


>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: pig-related
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:38:31 -0800
>
>http://www.channel3000.com/news/1289390/detail.html
>
>MARSHALL, N.C. -- Health officials have filed animal cruelty charges
>against a North Carolina couple who had more than 100 pot-bellied pigs in
>their home. Hugh and Karen Koontz were charged Tuesday with two misdemeanor
>counts.
>
>The animals were discovered Friday when deputies went to evict the Koontzes
>from the house after it was sold in a foreclosure sale.
>
>In addition to the pigs, authorities said there were about 20 dogs, two
>dozen cats and several chickens and ducks in the house. The floor of the
>house was matted with mud and animal droppings.
>
>Karen Koontz said she had rescued animals for her Peaceable Kingdom Animal
>Sanctuary but became sick and was unable to care for them.
>
>As she put it, "Things just get away from you."


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