Today’s Photohunt theme is “free”.
Although at first glance this photo doesn’t seem to fit the theme, these are some free range pigs & piglets foraging about next to the mountain road going up to Cachopo, Portugal (the fence is there to stop them from wandering out onto the highway).
casa azahar 
cute piglets
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I love little piggies!
Mine is up but you’ve seen the photos before.
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Cute piglets!! oink, oink!
free
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I just realised that I forgot to include a link so you could click to enlarge – fixed now.
I was with Susan, kidlet and Nog that day and this was after having a fabulous lunch of stewed wild boar up at the top of the mountain, in Cachopo. We were driving back down when I spotted these piggies and asked if we could stop the car so I could take some pics.
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I used to love the walks in Aracena that would take you past all the free range pigs, but I think my husband preferred eating the jamon!
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lucky them that they can forage around freely. not so with the others. happy weekend!
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So the fence is to protect them from becoming flattened fauna? If so, that definitely is a good thing! 🙂
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On the other hand, we can’t tell which way the fence bends. Maybe the photographer is imprisoned and the piglets are the free ones…
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😛
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Interesting take on the theme. Free range meat is so far superior to others, pity those who have never gotten to eat it.
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Yummy – free range bacon.
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Wander they will. I had a neighbor, back in my farming days, who raised a red colored pig and his little piglets would habitually get out and take to wandering about the road.
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I feel quite strongly on the subject of animals and how we rear and slaughter them.
Rearing them with respect, allowing them to behave the way nature intended, as far as possible, and then dispatching them, gently and kindly, local to where they were reared. That seems the right way to do things.
We passed one of those double-decker animal transporters on the motorway last week. I glanced up at the side of the vehicle – and looked a pig straight in the eyes. I flt sick and guilty for quite a while afterwards.
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Bacon!
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In New Zealand, we have a lot of free ranged piggies too.
How come mummy is black, and there are some brown piggies?
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An interesting and great find for the theme!
Happy Weekend!
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