This story breaks my heart!

I saw this picture and read this story and had tears running down my face.

I just love pigs, but I guess those weren't circumstances where fire-rescue or anyone else could have staged a water rescue of hogs amidst all this disaster. Still, I just hate thinking about what that was like for those poor animals. Pigs are really sweet and smart.
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Luck runs out for pigs caught in flood - CNN.com

Luck runs out for pigs caught in flood

KINGSTON, Iowa (AP) -- Luck ran out for about a dozen pigs who escaped their flooded farm, swam through raging floodwaters and scrambled atop a sandbag levee in southeastern Iowa.

Officials said they killed the pigs over worries that they would weaken the levee.

Des Moines County sheriff's officials shot the pigs Tuesday, not long after they reached the levee several miles from the nearest hog farm.

Officials said they killed the pigs over worries that they would weaken the levee. Onlookers said the animals were having a difficult time trying to maneuver their way off the sandbags, and that they scurried back into the water as people approached.

"Basically you cannot have something with a hoof walk on plastic and not poke a hole in the plastic and let water into it," said LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the county emergency management commission. "Hogs, they have a tendency to root and that would not have been good either."

He said the state veterinarian and other agencies were consulted, and that 10 to 16 animals were killed.

"It happens every day. My gosh, that's what slaughterhouses do -- that's how we get bacon and pork chops," Lippert said. "It's just one of the casualties of the flooding situation."

The carcasses were left at the site and treated essentially as road kill, Lippert said. "You don't get them out of the mud and over the dike when you're worried about people and people's property," he said.

Louisa County Sheriff Curt Braby said he had heard about the incident and understood why the pigs needed to be killed.

"They did not want to take a chance on losing a city due to a few hogs," he said.

Lippert noted that out of about 36,000 pigs in the Oakville area, officials estimated that only a thousand or so were left behind when the floodwaters came through.

"We trucked them as far as 200 miles away to other hog farms so that they would be taken care of," he said. All residents in the area had been evacuated, Jefferson said.

That is sad. I see why it had to be done, but it is still sad --- mostly because of what these pigs had already done to save themselves. They swim out of the flood and make it to what seems like safety, then get shot.

On a completely different note, welcome back, Birdgirl! I hope you are feeling better! You misssed a heck of a ruckus over in politics! Good times...

sad.... --- but tasty....

Dang
*pours out some gatorade for the hogs in Iowa*


That is kinda sad,to make your way to survive only to get shot.

I guess you could say that is pig on pig violence

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Originally Posted by Drag187

I guess you could say that is pig on pig violence

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HA!!!!

"It happens every day. My gosh, that's what slaughterhouses do -- that's how we get bacon and pork chops," Lippert said. "It's just one of the casualties of the flooding situation."

its cool with me..

I was in Cedar Falls last wednesday. I saw 12 head of cattle on the second story wrap around deck.. And the guy in the boat, said "sucks to be those people, not only is their house flooded. They will have 12 rotting cows on their deck when they get home.

'pork is whats for dinner lol'


Ive read pork causes parasite infestation in ones body


I cant see the bloodshed though

live and let live