While shopping at the Friendly Center in Greensboro last week, we walked into a pet store. Of course, both girls wanted to get at least one dog out each. I was able to use the "we're about to eat, you don't want to get dirty" line that dads like to use. As I'm walking around looking at the aquariums, fish, lizards and other reptiles, the bride said, "Have you seen the skinny pigs?"I immediately thought she was slurring her words. After all, she'd been with Jennifer all morning so I wasn't sure what kind of trouble they'd gotten into. (Jennifer was a bad influence on the bride growing up. She used to spit on people from the top of the bleachers at the Nashville Sounds games. So you understand my concern.....) So she takes me to the front of the store to see these hideous things.
If Satan had a pet, this would be it.
Skinny pigs are actually a mutation of the guinea pig, and came from several labs in Canada in 1978. They're born without the gene that produces hair. They're also born without the gene that produces cute.
Some people have pets that are so ugly they're cute. Like an English bulldog. They have these rolls of extra skin, they're short and stocky, and a huge underbite. But they're cute in spite of their appearance, plus they usually have great laid-back personalities. These things? How could they have any kind of personality? And the odor matches their looks.
Needless to say, there won't be a skinny pig in our house any time soon.....
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