Pass me my pig-sized snorkle

by Meg on March 21, 2008

Yeah, the water’s great… visibility is like 50 feet, come on in.

[moves schnozzle in snorting motion]

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Sender-Inner Leigh H. says Boston.com asked readers to submit "warm weather" photos. Exxxxxcellent!

{ 64 comments }

1 Bluemenro 03.21.08 at 3:26 pm

Squee! That is one pig satisfied.

2 meowandwoof 03.21.08 at 3:27 pm

I have GOT to hear the rest of this story!

3 warrior rabbit 03.21.08 at 3:28 pm

water hog

4 aloria 03.21.08 at 3:35 pm

Mmm… bacon flavored water.

5 Eastie 03.21.08 at 3:36 pm

Hee! So cute.

Yeah, I’m in Boston and Spring started yesterday, but it definitely doesn’t feel like it! People sent in their warm weather photos so we could at least look at something to make us feel less cold.

6 katerpie 03.21.08 at 3:41 pm

It’s snizzling in Chicago. Can anybody pass some spring this way?

7 Dianne 03.21.08 at 3:49 pm

What in the WOOOOORLD ????

8 Subhangi 03.21.08 at 3:50 pm

Awwww! I wanna be in the water now …

9 curious 03.21.08 at 4:01 pm

I demand a story.

10 claudia 03.21.08 at 4:10 pm

Actually no, I HAVEN’T seen one of those, LOL! Very cute :D

11 Kar 03.21.08 at 4:15 pm

YOu can barely see the pig because of the shade and the snout covers the mouth;

And yet that smile is clear as day. I wanna scatch behind the ears.

12 martha in mobile 03.21.08 at 4:36 pm

“Excuse me, sir; have you any Grey Poupon?”

13 ButtaRumCake 03.21.08 at 4:40 pm

Martha in Mobile: LOL!!!!!!!

14 Vicki 03.21.08 at 4:43 pm

I would LOVE to jump in there with that piggles. But even here in North Florida, it’s still a little too chilly to go swimming.

15 Theo 03.21.08 at 5:00 pm

Sorry, son, we ain’t got no gray poopin’, but we got some barby-Q sauce down in the galley…

16 Bocebus 03.21.08 at 5:06 pm

I never understood how pigs can swim with those hoofed foots? I remember being mystified by the swimming pig at Aquarina Springs as a child.

17 Annica 03.21.08 at 5:16 pm

I bet underneath that fur, he’s all soaked and wrinkly :)

Thats one clean piggy :D

18 Sandra 03.21.08 at 5:26 pm

Theo!!! Shame on you! Piggies run SCREAMING from BBQ sauce!!!

19 jodie 03.21.08 at 5:34 pm

i can’t tell where this photo was taken…in a pool or in natural water. it’s soooo clear and beautiful. SQUEAL!!!

20 Theo 03.21.08 at 5:35 pm

Wups, was that out loud? My goodness.

21 jen 03.21.08 at 5:44 pm

i think a yellow 1950’s bathing cap with plastic flowers all over it is in order.

that, and a margharita! toute suite!!!

22 scoobie 03.21.08 at 6:07 pm

A google search revealed the story, apparently there is a family of pigs in the Bahamas that swim

http://www.anotherroad.com/03-21StanielsCayPig.jpg

23 DKN 03.21.08 at 6:30 pm

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE….eal.

24 Kar 03.21.08 at 6:41 pm

Amazed by pigs swimming?

I still don’t understand how elaphants swim.

25 Anasztaizia 03.21.08 at 6:59 pm

This makes me wish it were summer so much more than I already was!

First day of spring yesterday and today there’s a winter storm warning and they’re cancelling schools left and right!

26 Lone 03.21.08 at 7:04 pm

“Your inviting me to Luau, thats wonderful. Help me into the boat and lets start the par-tay. You know my Brother-in-law said to avoid these kinds of things but hes always been a shut-in. I say let the good times roll! Ah and a grass skirt, we couldn’t Luau without that…but its awful big. Seems to cover my entire body. Lot of wood around here too…”

27 tank 03.21.08 at 7:06 pm

Do pigs swim?

28 secretlyindian 03.21.08 at 7:27 pm

Yes, pigs can swim quite well.

29 tank 03.21.08 at 7:38 pm

Awesome.

30 Theresa 03.21.08 at 7:43 pm

DO you or do you not allow a leetle peeggie to climb into your boat? I say Yes! Yes! Yes!

[We're gonna need a pigger boat... - Ed.]

31 Anasztaizia 03.21.08 at 7:50 pm

…pigger boat….

that was horrible

32 megusmaximus 03.21.08 at 8:03 pm

To follow up on Scoobie’s link, check out this site:
http://www.nbhtravel.com/StanielCay/stanielcay.htm

(scroll down for the pig section)

This pic is my fave – it looks like a dog park in an alternate universe:
http://www.nbhtravel.com/StanielCay/254_5422.jpg

(note the kitties in the background)

33 Courtney 03.21.08 at 8:10 pm

A family of swimming piggies… now I’ve seen everything!

*changes honeymoon plans to the Bahamas*

34 tank 03.21.08 at 8:15 pm

I would like to “officially” request moar pictures of swimming piggies please.

35 Way Cool Groovy Chick 03.21.08 at 8:20 pm

If you look closely, you can see piggy eyelashes. OMG!!!

36 eruntale 03.21.08 at 8:32 pm

I soooo want to bite that snorkle!! Cute piggie!

37 Jacquie 03.21.08 at 8:34 pm

Wanna get pork-a-fied? DEN LEMME IN DA BOAT,MON!

38 Decca 03.21.08 at 8:59 pm

Hey baby, care to join me in a few laps of the pig paddle?

39 M. 03.21.08 at 10:25 pm

Spring!!!!! COME ON OVER!

40 wendydejong 03.21.08 at 10:42 pm

I think a pig-sized snorkel is called a porkel.
Pretty sure.

41 Dale 03.21.08 at 11:22 pm

Cue Muppet announcers voice: And now we bring you another episode of, “Piiiigggsss innn poooolllll…..”

42 Golden 03.21.08 at 11:31 pm

Holy Crap that’s cool! And yeah.. if you follow those links, there’s a picture of the beautiful beach getting fed bread..and kitties in the background. It’s surreal! I love it.

43 Golden 03.21.08 at 11:32 pm

Ok.. the beach isn’t getting the bread.. the pigs are .. man ..

44 BiscuitTin 03.22.08 at 12:35 am

OK, so am I the only person who thought at first that this was a picture of a duck having sex with some sort of pig-like swim toy? See, I thought the pig’s left ear was a profile of a duck’s head and bill, and the other ear was the duck’s tail, and the pig’s head above the shadow was the duck’s body, and then below the shadow was whatever swim toy the duck was penetrating. To my credit, I was appalled. “This isn’t cute,” I thought to myself. And that quickly changed to, “What the hell?!” at the captioned suggestion to join in. (!) I knew something was wrong, so I kept staring, and then there was the pig, plain as day. It was like that skull vs. girl in the mirror picture – I saw one thing so clearly, I couldn’t see the other. Fine. I’m nuts. I know.

45 Aubrey 03.22.08 at 1:18 am

What swim stroke did he use – the hog paddle?

46 blair 03.22.08 at 3:30 am

he’s all “is it time for lunch? i want a baloney sandwich! with cheese! no? okay. i’m going to swim some more. call me when it’s lunch. byeeee!”

47 blair 03.22.08 at 3:32 am

dear biscuittin

you’re not nuts

you’re just another l4m3e on teh internets

HAND.

48 SoCalSis 03.22.08 at 4:06 am

“Hello, lads, which way to the English Channel?”

49 cath 03.22.08 at 8:53 am

oh, i’ll pass you a pig-sized snorgle, all right!

50 cath 03.22.08 at 8:53 am

…interspecies snorkeling?

51 susser 03.22.08 at 9:33 am

hello susser

What a cute pig
love mamma

52 Jaye 03.22.08 at 12:20 pm

I have an art print called “Diving Pig,” so when I saw this post I immediately thought, “Here’s what happens after the dive!”

http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/019-25790/

53 Gail 03.22.08 at 12:40 pm

@SoCalSis: LOL!! I was thinking of the recurring bit in the Beatles movie “Help” where a guy surfaces, asking “White Cliffs of Dover”?

54 Hon Glad 03.22.08 at 12:59 pm

Well I’ll be hogswoggled.

55 onionsnotbunyons 03.22.08 at 1:15 pm

Dear Biscuittin,

Maybe you just need glasses. I was having similar issues with signs not making sense or thinking they said off the wall things. At first I thought “have I been dyslexic all this time and just now am noticing it?” Then I got my eyes checked.
Peace.

56 Manda 03.22.08 at 3:30 pm

Yeeeeeahhh, no matter how much I squint or drink, I’m still not seeing what Biscuittin saw.

That pig is the happiest porker on the planet, and a ham (ba-dum!) to boot. Pigs are really quite intelligent, and this little dude looks like he knows exactly what sort of reaction he’s getting.

57 temperance 03.22.08 at 3:52 pm

okay. so, ummm, not to be a nuffer or anything…but i heard that if piggies get wet they will definitely DIE- you should never, never bathe them or let them get wet in any way.

and i sure hope that isn’t chlorinated water he’s swimmin’ in, ’cause that’ll blind him for sure.

hope they put him in the dryer right away!

58 Lone 03.22.08 at 3:56 pm

As I remember, mud tends to be pretty high in water content but I could be wrong.

And those shoreline pigs linked above seems to be fairly well off despite their regular dippings.

59 Niki 03.22.08 at 4:29 pm

Wow, the nuffers are really streeeeetching themselves to find the negative…surely you jest, pigs love to get wet!

60 cath 03.22.08 at 4:57 pm

LOL @ temperance

peeple, peeple, peeeeeple…

you did notice temp’s suggestion that piggies be put in the dryer after swimming, right? i’m pretty sure that post is “nuff in cheek,” and she’s just desperate for pudding.

61 Blue Colossus 03.22.08 at 5:24 pm

More cats.

62 Wbirdie 03.23.08 at 12:32 am

Now that’s what I call one afloat shoat! :D

63 Raemie L. 03.24.08 at 7:49 am

Curled hoofs and floppy ears~

64 Babs 03.24.08 at 3:43 pm

Heh. The shadow over his face makes it look like he’s wearing swim goggles. He’s a competitive porkeler!

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