Earlier this week I wrote THIS PIECE about how we want the City to legalize goats as pets, and immediately two other random urban barnyard animal stories fell in my lap.
The first one is the story about Wilbur, a "rescue pig" who hangs out at a doggy daycare in Vancouver. The weird thing is that the pig was rescued from Edmonton where the dogs at her home attacked her... and now she hangs with dogs that love her. Nice pig. Read that one HERE.
The second story came from the provincial government who tweeted out a link to THIS PHOTO of two pygmy goats. Thistle and Bramble were just welcomed to the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre where they'll be providing "therapeutic relief for staff and inmates, as well as maintain the grounds without the use of gas powered equipment". As in, they're going to be pets. What's curious is that this facility is in Saanich, the very same municipality where that 11 year old goal was PLEADING (or should we say bleating?) the case that the city allow her to keep goats as pets. As it stands right now she'd have to go to prison to be afforded that luxury, but changes are afoot and the bylaw LOOKS like it's going to be changed.
