Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Little Piggies (and a dog)
One thing that puzzled me is that some of the pigs wear these wooden V-collars around their necks.
It turns out these are to prevent them from escaping between the barbed wire fences. I'm not sure how well it works since this pig if obviously free, and most of the pigs I've seen are. Maybe pigs are only kept penned every once in a while.
Dogs in Nicaragua are almost universally emaciated, just skin and bones. They usually have some old wounds and beg whatever scraps they can find, or root through trash. This dog is fairly typical. Behind the dog, you can see little black piggie banks. In Sabaneta, pottery is about the only industry besides agriculture. A lot of folks make jars and piggie banks and fire them in kilns to solidify them. Then they're often painted or decorated and brought into town to be sold.
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