et Pig Kelly

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

Once a year the farmers had a festival and farm produce and livestock were sold at auction.

It was a lovely fall day and everyone was having a good time. One of the items on the auction list was a prize pig from the Kelly farm. Animals usually brought a fine price and were won by butcher shops and sold in pieces to Lilliland customers as choice cuts of tender meat.

The bidding would begin for a pig and several butcher shops and meat markets offered a high price. But one bidder, Mr. Anderson, who did not usually bid on pigs, offered the best price and the pig named Kelly was his.

The friends of John Anderson asked him why he bid so much and why did he bid at all because he owned an apple orchard.

His friends knew that John and his family were all vegetarians. So what would he do with Kelly the pig?

John said that he bought the pig because he wanted the pig as a pet. The pig would be free to roam around the apple orchards and eat as many apples as she could find.

“Besides, I make enough money from my apple orchards that I can afford a pet pig. If I bought a pet horse, no one would raise an eyebrow, so why the big concern about a pet pig named Kelly?”

Kelly, the pet pig, was pretty smart and had a general idea of what was happening and she looked like she was very happy.

As Kelly quickly adapted to her new surroundings, she felt very comfortable in the apple orchard. She earned her keep by chasing away rodents and snakes. This made John Anderson very happy. Pigs are relatively clean animals and learn their name. They came when called. This makes them, in every sense of the work, a fine pet.

History would report that Kelly, the pet pig, would live a long and wonderful life in John Anderson’s apple orchard.

In the winter, Kelly would stay in the barn that was warm and comfortable.

This experience made all of the pig farmers in Lilliland have more respect for the pigs they raised.

It is interesting to speculate whether Kelly, the pet pig, knew somehow that the John Andersons were vegetarians.