'''Pigs''' are [[omnivore|omnivorous]] odd-toed [[ungulate]]s originally native to Europe. Pigs have long snouts with flattened ends, curly tails, and are typically pink in color. Feral pigs, however, rapidly revert to the dark and bristly form of the [[wild boar]], from which domestic pigs are derived.
2007 is the [[China|Chinese]] year of the Pig.
Male pigs are called boars, female pigs are called sows, and baby pigs are called piglets.
Pigs are surprisingly intelligent, and trained pigs are used in parts of Europe to root for [[truffle]]s. The [[Vietnam]]ese pot-bellied pig is a small house-trained variety, which is kept indoors so that [[mosquito]]s bite it in preference to the human residents.
[[Bacon]], [[pork]], often in the form of the [[sausage]] and ham come from pigs. [[Pigs' trotters]] are a delicacy in northern England, dried [[pigs' ears]] are readily available as a treat for [[dog]]s, and the fat of the pig is [[lard]], the skin is often either deep fried or baked and sold as [[pork scratchings]] in UK [[pubs]]. It is said that everything of the pig can be eaten, with the exception of the oink.
Footballs are traditionally made from a pig's skin, and for the earliest ballgames, an inflated pig's [[bladder]] was used for a ball.
In the liberty of the New Covenant, not even pigs are considered unclean by Christians, unless a person is convinced they are unclean in his own mind. Romans 14:14 ''I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.''
==Pigs In Literature==Pigs have often featued in works of fiction. Two particular examples are [[Animal Farm]] by [[George Orwell]], and the [[Blandings Castle]] novels by [[P.G. Wodehouse]] where the Empress of Blandings is a prize-winning sow.