I love vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. They're so cute!
They are just adorable, but sadly, they are endangered traditional Vietnamese small pig breed.
Really? I had no idea. Any particular reason why?
I'm not sure, but I think it is because they are reared for the meat so often.
Ah, they are used for food. That makes sense. But, wen I think of pot-bellied pigs, I think pets.
I do too! That's why its so sad to me that they are endangered. They were actually the most numerous pig breed up until the 1970's. 
Wow, that seems like such a short amount of time for a species to become endangered. That is sad!
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.