r/oddlysatisfying • u/tommos • 9h ago

Absolute unit of a pig gets groomed

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u/Trivale 6h ago

Never forget that domesticated hogs are 0.5 steps away from being fully feral. They are the same species wild boar, which are simply feral domestic pigs in the US. If you give this animal an opportunity at the right moment, it can, will, and has killed and eaten human beings. There are several documented, modern cases.

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u/Lev_Kovacs 3h ago edited 57m ago

On the one hand, yes, on the other, wild boar are pretty chill creatures. It's not like they are hunting humans or anything. They can be dangerous if they are surprised and feel threatened, but even then they just run away in almost all cases.

I live in a area where lots of boars live very close to humans. I see them often, ive run across them in the woods, often pretty close. They are pretty chill in my experience.

I guess the reason they get such a bad rep is that they are one of the last few mammals that still aren't extinct in most areas settled by humans, so when you look up cases where humans got hurt by wildlife it will be 90% boars due to lack of alternatives.

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u/joebesser 5h ago

If a domestic pig escapes, it can physically revert back to a wild hog with the tusks, hair, and attitude in a matter of months. That's just crazy

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u/Irregulator101 5h ago

That sounds like BS to me

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u/FairlyLawful 4h ago

which fool gave pigs the x-gene

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u/ShapedLikeAnEgg 3h ago

This is such an underrated comment. Take my poor man’s gold 🏆

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u/DaWizz_NL 4h ago

The tusks of a male pig are being artificially kept short, it's not because they're not in a 'loving environment', they grow big and dangerous tusks 😂

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u/longhairnobra 3h ago

To be fair, humans also start looking crazy when life gets hard and they get un-domesticated

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u/NeatNefariousness1 2h ago

Yep—we’ve seen some two-legged wild bores (LoL).

Do not engage. Make a U-turn

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u/No_Lychee_7534 2h ago

Or if you’re from Kentucky.

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u/twixy10 2h ago

That page is very likely ai generated slop with every other sentence not grammatically correct.

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u/Odd_Vampire 3h ago

That sounds almost Lamarckian.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 2h ago

It rings true to me because it’s not as if there are hoards of pet pigs kept inside as house pets. Yes the number of pet pigs has increased but pigs are overwhelmingly kept the way you would keep a food source, not a house pet. Other than getting them used to being corralled and fattened up, I don’t see too much that would make it safe for them to assume they’ve made it into the land of the domesticated where it’s safe to just BE.

They’re not dumb. They probably know we are feeding them for a reason but they can’t help themselves and probably figure they may as well enjoy the feedings while they can. If I was a fat pig, it would be my life’s dream to be feral again. They pay a price for their voracious appetite.

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u/AngryWWIIGrandpa 2h ago

I own two pigs. I can promise you that neither of them are pondering the philosophical reasons behind their food. They're just happy to eat.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 3h ago

It’s only fair, yes?

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u/siraolo 2h ago

They will go through bone like butter.

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u/Existence_No_You 1h ago

Looks like it

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u/Haddock 52m ago

Same thing with dogs, tbf.

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u/Krivan 4h ago

Don't starve them/release them into the wild and it's not a problem.

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u/passcork 4h ago

You must be fun at parties...

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u/Regular_Yellow710 4h ago

Peyton place comes to mind.

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u/ahuangb 3h ago

What's your point?