Meet Agathe & Shpec

Nothing like a good scratch
on the brick!

Never short on surprises, Montreal street gave me the second topic of the summer. I was proudly riding my Bixi on Fullum when I saw what looked like a chihuahua and a pig on a second floor balcony. I just had to stop and meet the beasts! I put the Bixi on its rack and walked back trying to spot where they were. I found them! Though they were TWO pigs! 

The red one is Agathe. The spotted one is Shpec (hopefully spelled right, with all the excitement I forgot to ask!)  They got the royal summer treatment: a coat of sunscreen and ready for sunbathing on the balcony, refreshing in the ''pool'', eating Cheerios, being lovingly scratched. 

Agathe working the camera

Zoé and Jean-Simon wanted to have a dog, but the landlord didn't agree. Where most us would have abdicted, they went for mini pigs. Shpec will grow a little more and Agathe might get a little bigger than him since she has hog DNA. Zoé explained her mini pigs were potty trained by Albert another mini pig own by Émilie (she's the breader) Agathe grow up with him so she was already trained when she was adopted by Zoé. But Shpec peed everywhere. So he went on training with fussy Albert. Peeing once on the floor was fine. Pooping was a big no-no. Albert  pushed Shpec to the litter until he got the message.

Here they are bathing, not
without a Cheerios insentive

Anyway, I have seen people in the media with their weird pets (Shpec is a Journal de Montreal Stars) from farm, jungle or both south and north pole, but the more minutes I spent on that balcony the more I considered having my own mini pig. They were so darn cute with their snout hovering over my hands. Would you get a mini pig? More pictures of Agathe and Shpec here You never know, you might be convinced!

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