Jessica Richardson scrubbed her pig's back with a soapy brush. Then her father, Keith Richardson, rinsed it before Jessica led the porker before a 4-H judge at the Mercer County Fair on Thursday.

There is a myth that pigs are squalid animals, justifying a falsehood that they should be fed on dirty and rejected foodstuff. This could never be any further from the truth - pigs are clean animals.

When we think of animals in a shelter waiting to be adopted, cats and dogs typically come to mind. However, recently, there have been a number of pot-bellied pigs finding themselves homeless and in ...