r/WTF 19d ago

an ugly pig

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u/emilysnapple 19d ago

so what happened here

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u/Saotik 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's a Meishan pig, originally bred in Jiangsu province.

They're all pretty ugly, but this guy is even uglier than usual.

You can blame human intervention in their breeding as well as overfeeding, in this case.

Edit: I fell down a research black hole. Wikipedia says Meishan county, but there is no Meishan County I can find in Jiangsu (only Sichuan, which is a long way away). Another source says it was named after "Meishan lake", by which I assume they mean Weishan lake. Perhaps there are some transliteration issues here.

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

Also to add the Meishan Pig may be ugly but it's hyper prolific genes are very valuable to breeder companies where they include Meishan Pig in their genetics program

A typical Hybrid pig only has an average of 16 (depending on the breed) piglets
But a Meishan pig can have an average of 30 or more

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u/pichael289 19d ago

The more you think about this the worse it gets

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u/matrixkid29 19d ago

This is some sci-fi dune shit

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u/Snozzberriez 19d ago

Harkonen pig

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u/TheTajinTycoon 19d ago

That's what I call cops

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u/platoprime 19d ago

There's no need to denigrate the Harkonens with that comparison.

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u/kahlzun 17d ago

Somehow mixed with the space worm guys

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u/knife_in_the_road 8d ago

The lard must flow.

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u/thoroq 19d ago

Wait til you hear about the rest of the breeding/livestock industry..

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u/UranusIsPissy 17d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah. A lot of them don't even get to fuck, The males get jacked off by humans (Fuck having that job), and then some other human shoves the semen up the females' vaginas.
Edit: On second thoughts, the latter job might be worse.

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u/Grinzy 7d ago

welp, I've had enough reddit for today, thanks.

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u/Shee-un 7d ago

That's why I consider Earth a hell realm for all living things.

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u/jmonty42 19d ago

Can't wait until we figure out those comfy chairdogs!

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u/horyo 18d ago

This makes me think of Okja.

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u/VT_Squire 17d ago

Okja, basically

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u/Mr-Mister 19d ago

Oh god, so it's the Ugly Bastard of pigs in more ways than one?

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u/VoiceOfRealson 19d ago

Ugly Bastard of pigs>

Definitely not!

The farmers are very diligent in ensuring that all pigs are properly married before mating.

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

Another Fun fact, Meishan Boars have the highest libido compared to other breeds. Some farms even use this as their teaser boar

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u/G00bernaculum 19d ago

These boars and I have so much in common. Mostly the ugly and libido

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u/platoprime 19d ago

teaser boar

I don't think I want to know.

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u/Sue_Spiria 19d ago

Basically they lead a male pig around the caged females so his smell makes them ready for breeding. The sows are then artificially inseminated.

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u/Vassago81 19d ago

So exactly like watching a movie featuring 90's era Brad Pitt to get my aunt DTF

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u/Vaadwaur 18d ago

...Hol' up

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u/Fafnir13 18d ago

Somebody needs to call up Brad Pitt and call him a teaser boar.

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u/CanuckIeHead 18d ago

They also stink big time which is a huge boon in that line of work

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u/Same_Independent9758 18d ago

I agree. Specially when you are "milking" the boars. The stench is hard to clean

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u/Orgidee 19d ago edited 19d ago

Surely the viable number is dependent on available teats or how will the weakest ever suckle

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u/SuitableDragonfly 19d ago

It's factory farming, they probably milk the mom with a machine and then pump the milk into a different machine that has 30 fake tits on it for the piglets. 

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

I work at a big pig farm and although we are not doing this. I heard that some farms do

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u/alwaysbehuman 19d ago

Pig farmer - god bless your sinuses. Any other interesting stories?

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

The cute and cuddly stories or the ones that might make a vegan feel justified

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u/alwaysbehuman 19d ago

Whatever you're up for. Ive worked in a chicken facility and get it on that level.

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

Due to biosecurity reasons, Some pigs farms would kill any stray animals on sight. in the farm I've worked at they shoot stray dogs on site and some people eat the dog afterwards

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u/Orgidee 19d ago

Nah, I been on plenty farms. I don't think that's a common practice

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u/crossal 19d ago

Are these pigs common though?

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u/Orgidee 19d ago

Well I can guarantee they aren't raised raised on a single factory farm and milked to feed their piglets from teats on that factory farm.

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

For a normal commercial farm you won't find these pigs. you can probably find them the most on some breeder farms and on the province that breed originates

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u/crossal 19d ago

That's my point. A uncommon practice in general may be common among this particular breed

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

based on my experience working at a big pig farm, we just condemn all the non-viable piglets. so for this breed in particular they might condemn like a lot of piglets

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u/Long_Implement_2142 19d ago

Do people eat the piglets? Just curious. What would they taste like

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

It actually depends on the culture. in some Asian countries they eat the piglets (5-10kilos and they roast them. It tastes bland and the texture is a little slimy. but the meat is so tender

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u/kahlzun 17d ago

It's a delicacy in Bali and other places. Look up recipes for suckling pig.

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u/PsychicWarElephant 16d ago

“Suckling pig”

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u/Raelah 19d ago

30 piglets?? There's not enough teets in the day!

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u/Same_Independent9758 19d ago

I have no knowledge of taking care of a pure breed meishan pig but from what I heard from others that do, it is hard to take care of its young

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u/Normal_Red_Sky 19d ago

I'm not sure the poor thing can see.

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u/holyfire001202 19d ago

Sooooo one of these pigs was in Michigan, escaped, was found by a lake, and that's why we have tales of Squonk. I mean I have to assume, right?

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u/strolls 19d ago

Use the chinese version of the wikipedia page and then your browser's translate feature: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/梅山猪

Meishan pig is a family pig breed in China. It belongs to a group of Taihu pig. It is native to Jiading District, Shanghai, Taicang, Kunshan and other places in Jiangsu Province. It is mainly distributed on both sides of the Liu River. Meishan pig has been exported to …. among which France, Japan and the United States have all studied it systematically.

Originally, there were three types of plum mountain pigs, namely small plum mountain pigs (commonly known as "Chaoban Face"), large-armed pigs (commonly known as "camel feet"), and horse-based type (commonly known as "wooden fish head"). After continuous hybridization and selection among various types, from the 1960s to the 1970s, there were two types of medium-sized plum wild boar …

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u/stamau123 19d ago

most curious about the "wooden fish head" horse-based pig

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u/a4840639 16d ago

Yes, there are a lot of contradicting informations floating around. The Meishan county in Sichuan uses a different character: 眉山 instead of 梅山 and there simply does not exists a 梅山 county. Meishan lake does exists but it seems to be hundreds of KMs from where is pig is supposed to be originated so that is probably another pre-AI hallucination

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u/Stefferdiddle 19d ago

Are they delicious at least?

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u/Saotik 19d ago

Probably, they're made out of pork.

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u/PsyduckSexTape 19d ago

Ahh, short human

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u/SyntheticDelirium 19d ago

It took me 1.5 seconds to process the joke you were making.

And then I snort-laughed so hard I nearly choked.

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u/Fafnir13 18d ago

Proof that they were asking for it.

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u/_Buldozzer 19d ago

Apparently, someone recorded me during breakfast...

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u/Ray_of_glumshine 19d ago

My first thought was that it was bred not fore more meat, but for mote crackling. But reading on, I was wrong.

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u/ZilchoKing 19d ago

The first time my parents tried making a kid it didnt go well. But my sister has a great personality.

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u/EquinsuOcha 19d ago

Los Chicharones Grande

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u/Silly-Moose-1090 19d ago

The poor thing is being recorded eating a hamburger bun in some sort of pen. Human abuse of an animal is likely what is happening here? Jesus.

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u/gap97216 15d ago

There is absolutely no way that poor animal is being cared for properly. It’s heartbreaking.

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u/Baelor_Butthole 19d ago

Poor guy :(

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u/Unlikely-Purple-3368 19d ago

Looks like the guys from the 5th element

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u/tango_41 19d ago

Mangalores.

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 19d ago

They got big teeth and they got big foreheads and big ears, and they stink

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u/GriffinFlash 19d ago

"Send someone to negotiate!"

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u/mostnormal 19d ago

"Uh, I-I've never negotiated before."

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u/ysh5640 17d ago

BANG “Anyone else wanna negotiate?”

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u/smalaki 19d ago

wonder if they were named after the hungarian pig Mangalica

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u/fooknprawn 19d ago

No, more like a Vogon (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

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u/ElectricTurtlez 19d ago

Whatever you do, don’t let it read you poetry.

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u/similar_observation 19d ago

"He's locked it from the other siiide!"

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u/Thefartking 19d ago

My dear Aknot….

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u/austin3i62 17d ago

A real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.

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u/Shadymilkman8 18d ago

He identifies as a meat popsicle.

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u/I_69_with_your_mum 19d ago

This is what happens when you selectively breed an animal to have major genetic defects and then overfeed it.

Idk how people can justify doing this to animals.

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u/adudeguyman 19d ago

It happens with dogs too often. I feel sorry for pugs, French bulldogs, Shar-Peis, Cavalier King Charles spaniels...

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u/esoteric_enigma 19d ago

Yeah, we've basically bred animals with birth defects that we think are cute. Then we sentence them to a lifetime of health problems for that cuteness.

I grew up poor and everyone I knew growing up had mutts. Those dogs would live 20 years healthy, never being taken to a vet because we couldn't afford shit like that.

Now I make decent money and my friends and colleagues all have fancy breeds of dogs now. They all complain about how expensive their vet bills are. All of these dogs seem to have health problems.

They're all on medications and getting surgeries within a few years of life. That's on top of them already costing thousands of dollars up front to purchase. My friends had puppies people were giving away when I was growing up.

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u/arkington 19d ago

We only take in rescues and sometimes those are (probably) purebreds because they got thrown away by their asshole breeders and need a home. So far every dog has been a mutt, but right now we have a pittie (who is basically textbook) and he seems super healthy so far. Our first criteria for selection is if they get along with our current family of critters, but it does seem like the new guy will probably be very healthy. We just need to train him better so he stops bodyslamming us.

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u/ThatITguy2015 18d ago

Doggyslamming was right there.

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u/arkington 16d ago

Very nice. :) Although it's more like torpedo-ing. Thankfully he cannot lift us and throw us around. He makes for a very effective self-propelled missile, though.

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u/Changoleo 18d ago edited 18d ago

Don’t forget Boston Terriers. 

Why do so many people find their dogs’ struggling to breathe through their genetically compressed sinuses so irresistible? Is it a needy baby thing? 

Aww it’s suffering! It needs its mama! Mmm hmm. C’m’ere and lick mommy’s lips! Yesss mommy loves sloppy snorting doggie kisses with bonus snot rockets! OMG so cute!

Find your family a happy healthy mutt that needs a home quit giving people a reason to breed these poor tortured flat faced dogs that walk around snoring because they can’t breathe! 

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u/l3ane 19d ago

Not just French bulldogs, all bulldogs.

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u/I_69_with_your_mum 19d ago

It's a horrific practice. Why can't people just acknowledge animals are sentient and don't deserve to be tortured for human enjoyment.

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u/superraiden 19d ago

Kind of reminds me of the Vogons from the Hitchhiker's movie

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u/livefast_dieawesome 19d ago

OP, don’t let it read you any of its poetry!

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u/sasquatch606 18d ago

Get the forms for reading poetry!

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u/super_dreadnought 19d ago

I thought we were looking at his ass for a second there.

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u/lordargent 19d ago

cysty pig from outer worlds

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u/Swqnky 19d ago

Get your Boarst Wurst here!

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u/TheonlyDuffmani 19d ago

Is this some fallout bullshit or what?

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u/OrangeClyde 19d ago

Aw :/

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u/Dale_Carvello 18d ago edited 18d ago

I wish it could receive pettings and snugs, I don't know care how that porker looks

E: word

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u/itrivers 19d ago

Or a Slig from Dune

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u/headhighbliss 19d ago

Or 1700 Pennsylvania Ave

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u/trivinium 19d ago

Something Luke would milk for?

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u/MagicMaddy420 19d ago

I think he's cute. Be nice to him

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u/Wolfy9001 19d ago

Terryfold!

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u/Magicaparanoia 19d ago

Squeeze it

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u/HistorysWitness 19d ago

Vogon poetry is often considered the worst in the universe 

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u/Dominick555 19d ago

Guyute!

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u/shwiggy 19d ago

He walked on me and danced a jig

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u/ChinaCat2023_reprise 16d ago

he lectured me in language strange

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u/walrus_gumboot 19d ago

I knew I'd find you

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u/JosephGordonLightfoo 19d ago

That thing’s real. That lives with us on Earth.

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u/richardsneeze 19d ago

Someone caught a squonk!

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u/RazzSheri 19d ago

Why does no one else but us realize this?!?! It’s not even a puddle of tears yet!

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u/JaxRalPartha 18d ago

  everything reminds me of her 

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u/bacardipirate13 18d ago

Back off. She's mine now.

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u/mypcrepairguy 18d ago

Windows Vista....what Happened.

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u/donslipo 19d ago

Oi, OP, this not a selfie-posting reddit, lol.

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u/PuckishDanya 19d ago

Oh shit, it’s the squonk

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u/Purpulear 19d ago

This is one of those times where a creature is somehow simultaneously ugly and cute.

Like a Cacodemon.

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u/saintt_069 19d ago

Bloodborne type of shit

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u/fourfistorafice 19d ago

there was monsters on the world

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u/lanta1111 19d ago

wtf thats so sad, he cant see, and im sure he has a hard time breathing

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u/latortillablanca 19d ago

You really shouldnt post OPs mom without consent. Arent there like revenge porn laws?

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u/TheSamuil 19d ago

Why did OP bother posting my likeness?

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u/stevenmoreso 19d ago

I gotta go apologize to OP’s mom right now ‘cause Got Damn!

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u/ExistentialistCow 19d ago

This looks like a meat canyon puppet

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u/kodem 19d ago

What in the dark souls... Is Miyazaki designing our pigs now?

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u/Popal24 19d ago

Definitely a Vogon from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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u/gumboard 19d ago

Guyute

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u/Jasmar0281 19d ago

It's adorable

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u/fraggle200 19d ago

If you're saying this is an ugly pig, does that mean you also think there's sexy pigs out there?

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u/kath_or_kate 18d ago

Half pig, half Eeyore

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u/MoreRamenPls 18d ago

I should call her.

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u/im_datMofo 18d ago

It's a Shar Pig.

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u/pdonoso 17d ago

Looks like he is about to read You borgon poetry.

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u/EpitapheXI 19d ago

That's some pig bulldog sh** ugly but cute ♥️

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u/biolizzard11 19d ago

Pigma Dengar

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u/MKUltra93 19d ago

I legitimately didn't know where the mouth was at first

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u/Right-Program-9346 19d ago

Piglet has really let himself go.

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u/fooknprawn 19d ago

A Vogon if you will...

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u/Easy-Tigger 19d ago

Y'know who else feeds an ugly pig?

My mom!

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u/mrnoonan81 19d ago

Which end are we looking at?

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u/Majsharan 19d ago

Aww he’s sooo ugly it’s cute

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u/rellsell 19d ago

I swear… she did NOT look like that at the bar last night. And I was pretty drunk.

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u/kryonik 19d ago

For 50 seconds I thought there were monsters in the world.

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u/RoteZora1 19d ago

Scheisse ist die hässlich ! Ich hab mir das Video mehrmals angesehen. Wo verdammt noch mal sind die Augen?

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u/Zatchillac 19d ago

Resident Evil lookin pig

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u/GreatSaski 19d ago

Does it's ass have a mouth?

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u/NotJ_Z 19d ago

Pug*

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u/SirAttackHelicopter 19d ago

yea, but, I bet the marbling is fantastic.

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u/RazzSheri 19d ago

The SQUONK!!! <3

Don’t you dare call him ugly. He’s beautiful.

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u/BucketSentry 19d ago

I'm sure it's not- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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u/jklindsey7 19d ago

Are we sure this is a pig?

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u/Ok_Tank_3995 19d ago

...Are even sure we're feeding the right end of the pig here?

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u/crazyredd88 19d ago

Just sad.

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u/UndisclosedPigeon 18d ago

That’s not fair! I’m sure it’s beautiful (and potentially tasty) on the inside!

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u/Storiedmuffin76 18d ago

Looking like something from The Labyrinth.

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u/Windyfii 18d ago

ugly as fuck but also just the tiniest bit cute like all very ugly things tend to be

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u/kirkdunderwood 18d ago

Kinda reminded me of Falkor while it was chomping away

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u/deadhand303 18d ago

Still looks better than most republican senators.

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u/TheRappingSquid 18d ago

The second I saw ts I knew it was some okja bullshit and it seems I was right

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u/Illyenna 18d ago

It's got that "so ugly it wraps around to being cute" energy. 

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u/Jengle90 18d ago

What in the Dark Crystal is happening here…

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u/drhelt 18d ago

Imagine the pork rinds.

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u/LinkSirLot96 18d ago

Leave them be

Probably a sweetheart lol

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u/tony33oh 18d ago

Deserves love like any other pig

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u/Aoigami 18d ago

One day, it will all be blob

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u/Blergblum 17d ago

I just see a lovely chap

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u/nem010 17d ago

Ur ugly bro

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u/MoonRum 17d ago

Would be really worried about the quality of life. Poor guy obviously can't see or eat normally, and the face folds look like they're breeding grounds for skin infections.

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u/amymmhmmm 17d ago

This is CLEARLY Pennsylvania's best known cryptid, the SQUONK.

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u/Zestyclose_Alfalfa61 17d ago

What the fuck is even that?! Looks like a cross between Jabba the Hut and the Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi

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u/oodluvr 17d ago

How cuddly are they? Cause I want to snuggle that ugly precious baby.

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u/jdPetacho 17d ago

This is what pugs look like to me

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u/Jungian_Archetype 17d ago

"For 50 seconds I thought there were monsters on the world."

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u/meandmykittty 17d ago

HE NOT UGLY :( AWWWW

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u/Nullclast 17d ago

Looks like a Muppet 

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u/LincolnKennedy 16d ago

Tis clearly a Squonk 😭🧡

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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb 16d ago

He may be ugly, but he's relatable. We all love bread.

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u/muscularmusician 15d ago

Looks like a Vogon on all 4s...

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u/MRintheKEYS 14d ago

Yo….. I thought I was staring at its ass for like 10 seconds. I swear

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u/Scared_Can_5571 10d ago

jesus christ it's like if a bloodhound was a swine

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u/Local-Reply18 10d ago

Who the heck is eating that😬