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!
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.
of interest in Vietnamese pot bellied pigs during the 1980s and 1990s with the current number of unwanted pigs. They have noted that many customers were misled by pig breeders about the size the pigs would reach, and became unable to care for the full grown pigs. The first two pigs entered the sanctuary in June 2001.
The pigs, which weigh up to , spend much of their time in wading pools or mud baths located on-site, and are fed two cups of grain and a portion of hay each day