No your eyes are not deceiving you. That is indeed a pig walking on a leash with other members of his canine agility team. Yes, Louie the pig has earned his spot on a canine agility team and regularly competes in agricultural and talent shows in his native England.
Owned by one animal behaviorist, Sue Williams, even she was amazed at the pig's "smarts." Louie is one of her eight pigs but since he was so much smaller than the others he was kept separately and given free range of her grounds.
"One day when I was training my dogs, I was trying to get one to run through a tunnel," she said. "Louie decided to zoom through the tunnel instead. I was really taken aback. I thought,'Hold on a minute--the pig's doing a better job than the dog.'"
"It just shows dog and animal owners that if you use the right type of training and reinforce good behaviour through reward you can do anything with any animal," she notes.
Sam, are you listening?
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