I have always wanted a pot-bellied pig.  Do you know much about them?
The Vietnamese pot-bellied pig are unfortunately endangered!
I heard that.  It is funny, up until the 1970s there were plenty of them in Vietnam.  The count was up to 2 million!
Oh wow!  The pot bellied pig used to be depicted in Vietnamese paintings as a symbol of wealth and happiness
Yes, and I believe the used to be used for their meat.  Apparently the flavor is considered excellent.  
That's true!  The meats does have excellent flavour, though it is a slow growing meat.
I guess they are down to about 120 pigs as of 2010.  I imagine it would be hard to get pot belly pig meat now
in northern Vietnam, with numbers running into millions. From that time, the more productive Móng Cái began to supplant it. The National Institute of Animal Husbandry of Vietnam started a conservation programme, with subsidies for farmers who reared purebred stock, but this had little benefit – there was some increase in numbers, but at the cost of increased inbreeding. In 1991, the total population of the I was estimated at , and by 2010 the estimated number was 120. In 2003 the National Institute of Animal Husbandry listed its conservation
Vietnamese Pot-bellied
Vietnamese Pot-bellied is the exonym for the Lon I () or I pig, an endangered traditional Vietnamese breed of small domestic pig.
The I is uniformly black and has short legs and a low-hanging belly, from which the name derives.The I is reared for meat. It is slow-growing, but the meat has good flavour. The I was depicted in the traditional Đông Hồ paintings of Bắc Ninh province as a symbol of happiness, satiety and wealth.