What is National Pig Day?

The domesticated pig is recognized on National Pig Day, which is celebrated annually on March 1st. zoos, colleges, nursing homes, and sporting festivals around the country are among the holiday's highlights include activities and celebrations. Other commemorated National Pig Day activities include Pig parties, pig parades, and auctions of pig collectibles.

Pigs are smart and intelligent creatures. However, the majority of people are unaware of their high level of intelligence. Some are household animals that can be trained and taught tricks.

A learned swine named the Learned Pig told time, counted, and other such tricks to attract crowds in Dublin in 1772.

In London in the late 1700s, there was a popular, if fictitious, Learned Pig, which seemed to have learned his knowledge from his mother. Before releasing him into the world, she ate an entire volume of Sir Robert Filmer's manuscripts and "Saobeverel's Sermons." She ate him whole. He was born with an intelligence that seemed obvious just by looking. He began waxing poetic as one day he feasted upon the garden of the great Milton himself..

Pigs have been popular storybook characters for generations. Piglets from A.