It is evident that this not-so-little piggie won't be going to market, even with a 50,000 yuan (6,735 U.S. dollar) offer on her head
At a sports meeting held especially for pigs in Ningxiang County in China's central Hunan Province on Saturday, a 1,040-kilogram porker hogged the media spotlight when its owner announced that he was intending on donating the giant sow to next summer's Beijing Olympic Games.
Chinese believe that pigs bring both nobleness and good luck,
Xiao Shaohong, owner of the five-year-old white sow from a village in Ningxiang, said he had raised the animal for five years but it had never produced any offspring. He said someone had offered to buy the pig for 50,000 yuan, a fortune to most Chinese farmers, but he refused to sell.
While other pigs took part in such events as hurdle-jumping, swimming and short sprints, the giant beast, who looked fairly agile and dwarfed most of the competition, did not participate, instead content to just bask in the limelight.
Source: Xinhua
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