>>>>Sounds like for the pet, it's hard to have owners! <g>
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>>>Yes, but children want... :(
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>>>I promised my daugter to buy a dog if we'll have a house. Fortunately we can't afford a house, just flat... :)
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>>I'm extremely lucky that my daughters preferred guinea pigs... which is about the largest animal we'd allow inside. They are cute, and easy to clean after - they don't leave their pen much. And what noise they make is just a bit of squealing when we have eaten and haven't fed her right after that :).
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>>Best of all: no cleaning after them in the street, no danger of a lawsuit (if it bites anyone, it doesn't hurt) and no organization which would fight for them until they have more rights than people.
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>Interesting... How can be a pig clean?

Metin

A guinea pig is not a pig - it's a rodent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig

In any case, pigs are only dirtry because humans keep them in an enclosure (pen), which becomes well-trodden ands turns to mud, and they have no option than to be dirty. In the wild, pigs (boar) are quite clean animals.