A butcher in Perth, Australia, is under fire for advertising that its goat meat comes from the baby goats at a petting zoo. Swansea Street Family Butcher wrote on Facebook post that their baby goats come “straight from the petting farm into our back door.” The post shows a photo of a live goat next to a rack of skinned goat carcasses, and the line, “Ever been at a petting farm and wondered what these animals you’re feeding taste like? Well now’s your chance, straight from the petting farm into our back door, bottle-fed baby goats all around 10kg only $15/kg. While stocks last. See if love and endless cuddles does make your food taste better.”
* It’s goat meat. How good CAN it taste?
* If you were ever a kid and you went to a petting zoo and got attacked by the goats after those food pellets in your hands, I don’t think you would mind this too much.
* Kinda makes you wonder why petting zoos don’t have snack bars. Eliminate the middleman.
* Does this butcher take requests? I’ve got a neighbor with four dogs that just won’t stop barking.

The latest craze in Japan: The pig café. Like a cat café, visitors can sit on the floor and play and cuddle with the “micro pigs” – miniature pigs, about the size of a corgi dog. The experience costs about $15 for the first 30 minutes. The first one opened in 2019, and now there are currently about ten minipig cafés throughout the country, with more in the works. The pig café is the latest in a series of animal coffee shops that have popped up in Japan, including ones that feature owls, hedgehogs, birds and even snakes.
* Their slogan is “Enjoy your visit, and watch your step.”
* These pigs sound like attention hogs.
* Funny they don’t mention what they serve in the café part of the Pig Café.
* Is a “micro pig” a pig that can fit in the microwave?
* Dang. Now I’m hungry for ribs.

In Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, a family is blaming their pet pot-bellied pig for setting their home on fire. Margaret Painter said she gave Albert the pig extra hay because it was going to snow. She thinks he knocked hay into his heat lamp and caught the house on fire early New Year’s Day morning. The Painters and their children escaped. They said they lost two cats, but three survived. Albert, the pot-bellied pig, suffered burns but survived as well. He was taken to a veterinary clinic to be treated, with brown sugar and maybe some chutney.
* But what’s left of the house smells delicious, like bacon.
* Trying to kill the family in their sleep. Obviously, Albert thinks he’s a cat.
* New for 2024: the Self-Roasting Ham.
* Time for yet another warning label on heat lamps.
* Another argument for aquariums.
* Dang! Now I’m really hungry for Denny’s Triple Bacon Slam.