There are a lot of hobby farms, folks that keep interesting pets, and pig fanciers in the world. There is no reason that these species are doomed to extinction. If you have interest, please see about getting some breeding stock. These are as easy to keep as ordinary domestic pigs AFAIK, but novel and quite striking in appearance.
This is just a PSA that I hope will alert someone to an opportunity to help preserve biodiversity. These unique species' endangered on their island homes are likely to be pretty popular for folks that keep exotics, and novel for folks that might instead have a pot-bellied pet. The pigmy hog from India is also endangered. Take a look, and if you can keep a herd, you might be the difference between life and extinction for these beautiful animals.
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Why are you flagged to high heaven on this post?....people hate pigs or you make someone really mad?
I just got enrolled in the flagwars by bernie. The guys a menace.
*guy’s
Just wanted to thank you for correcting my grammar. I do actually appreciate that kindness. If I knew enough about flagging, I'd remove the flag. We'll see if I can even figure out how.
Edit: well, that was actually easy. Good to know.
I find this box comes in handy at times....
I actually resonate far more strongly with this sentiment than you might expect. Some time in my earliest youth I grasped that I had a choice between seeking demonstrable facts and true information, or getting along with others. For some reason the very concept of sheltering myself and others from inconvenient truth made me recoil with something akin to horror. I purposed as a young child to allow no shield or means of misdirection to impede my grasp of reality, and to prefer being right to being victorious.
It is that box, that shield we can create and adopt ourselves to shelter us from reality we don't like, that best represents my own inner demons; my weakness, and is the most profound enemy of everything I have sought to be.
Thanks!
Agreed. I've come to understand the directions you have established for yourself, I am not underestimating that knowledge, was just having a bit of fun with you.
Nothing wrong with that =)
Flagged.
"The guys a menace."
Care to elaborate? I'm curious.
First, his comments are often defamatory, and have on occasion descended to sexual harassment and threats of violence that are probably both actionable in civil court, and criminally. Second, his virulence is extraordinarily public, and many people feel his actions so degrade the public image of Steem that he personally reduces the price of Steem by discouraging adoption and use of Steem by the potential market.
Lastly, he isn't very personable, and I don't like him. Since what of his comments to me that can be understood are pretty much limited to threats, he's literally menacing. That seems to be the extent of his personality. The only positive initiative I am aware of that he was involved in was @themadcurator, which I attempted to defend when the flagwar I am now embroiled in began between he and FTG.
This is the result of having anything to do with @berniesanders, even when attempting to encourage him to positively impact Steem. That's about as much thought and effort as I'm willing to provide, unless you have specific questions I can answer.
I flag trash. You are trash.
You are absolutely fucking clueless and have no idea what you're even saying. You've never even had a real conversation with me to be able to just how personable I actually am.
I'd love to see some examples of threats of violence or sexual harassment that I've made. You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?
Keep talking out your ass little man.
@berniesanders wrote this to my children's Grandmother, on her blog post about her Parents, and dealing with their hoarding:
Link: https://steemit.com/peace/@marionbowes/my-quest-for-2019
@berniesanders made a copy cat account of me in January called: @lyndsayblowes . Using my photo. The account has caused a lot of harm on the blockchain. He still uses it to spam. It's never been flagged in to negative reputation by @cheetah // @steemcleaners // @spaminator even though it has been reported many times mostly for spamming NSFW on the blockchain. Using my name and face at that.
@berniesanders used my photo of baking cookies with my children to harass me with, using his alt accout @abusereports.
Link: https://steemit.com/esteem/@taliakerch/russian-winter-magic-photos-f4347637071b5
This next comment @berniesanders wrote to me was deleted but I had it screen captured.
Link: https://steemit.com/ophumanangels/@lyndsaybowes/2-days-left-to-enter-phoenixwren-s-random-act-of-kindness-contest
Comment by @berniesanders to a user named @Nickgrujic saying "I'd love to put a bullet in your head".
Link: https://steempeak.com/freevotes/@berniesanders/re-nickgrujic-re-berniesanders-re-nickgrujic-re-berniesanders-show-me-your-shoes-get-an-upvote-20190317t205204698z
Are these the kind of things you are referring to @valued-customer?
Way to completely misrepresent the comment to @nickgrujic without showing the full context. I stand by my statement and have the legal authority to defend myself which is exactly what that comment was stating, again, when not misrepresented like you have done.
And what about how your lord and savior @fulltimegeek does far more damage to the chain on a daily basis than I have ever done?
And what about @beaniesanders, an account you created to impersonate and harass me?
And what about the constant coordinated harassment by you and your sheep like @kerrywolf, @nickgrujic, @mitrado, etc.? No comment on that either, eh? (P.S. - anyone can look at the comments on any of those accounts to see the real truth)
(DAMN, that’s a lot of “And what about....? Funny, eh?)
That’s what you imbeciles tend to do though, hence the earth being flat, and hosting aliens, right?
Another miserable fail on your part, Lynds. Also, nobody gives a flying fuck as you can see by the lack of attention you’re receiving from anyone but me and your 7 followers. You’ve again made yourself look like the slowest kid on the short bus.
Full context is 100% available on the blockchain. I realize this, do you?
Those are indeed exactly what I was referring to. On the post you link to first, you can even see my comments to bernie recommending he moderate his comments to avoid litigation. I am not quickly moved to anger, and have made every effort to reasonably engage with him, but as you can see here today, it has been to no avail.
Thanks!
"That's about as much thought and effort as I'm willing to provide..."
It seemed a solid elaboration to me. I appreciate it.
I even get the bonus of what unfolds below to help sate my curiosity.
@lindsaybowes has far more personal experience than I, and her comment is exemplary of what I have but a wee grasp of. Her blog demonstrates her sound character, and while we have disparate interests, I found it such a good example that I am now a follower.
This first looks very funny 😂😂😂
They are all unique aren't they?
Those are some wacky looking hogs!
They do got that going for them LOL. Habitat loss has left some of them down to a few hundred, whose members are fragmented. Since they have ordinary porcine habits, farmers find them intolerable pests. At least one species has recently gone extinct.
There are plenty of folks that I think would be pretty proud to have unique pigs with beards, or amazing crests. These pigs ooze character, and that's a fact.
Yeah they do have some pretty cool beards to them! I think at our local zoo there is some sort of hog that has a weird beard thing to it. Never really thought about it being endangered but I suppose that is why it is there now that I think about it.
How about them wild boars in some states where they gun them down by gattling guns in helicopters? Those ones seem to be a huge problem.
Were the endangered ones getting killed due to the same thing?
Well, my grasp of their situation is that on islands, their habitat is limited in extent, and this renders populations less robust. As development has proceeded, that habitat has been destroyed, and fractured, leaving those relic populations far more vulnerable. At the same time, farmer's resistance to the depredations of pigs on their crops has further put pressure on the species.
On a continent, such as N. America, there is little limit on the available habitat to an omnivore like pigs, and the feral domestic hogs that have become problematic are not facing the same pressures island pigs face. Neither is that species already limited in number, as island pigs are. Domestic pigs are on every continent but Antarctica today. It is practically inconceivable that feral hogs could be endangered as island species' are.
There are better examples out there but I get your point :D
If I only had the ressources..
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I also am unable to keep any barnyard animals presently, to my chagrin. For folks looking at Vietmanese Pot-Bellied Pigs, however, I reckon these are better alternatives.
Haha got it :D :p
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