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Piggy banks made from real pigs

http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/home/pi...iglet/3e06c4f2

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The bank, mentioned in Vancouver Magazine, is featured on a website called thecheeky.com, which describes itself as providing "ideas to make the World Wide Web smile and from time to time frown like a baby eating a lemon."

Aileen White, spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Humane Society, said she is disgusted with the people behind the item.

"It's such an incredible in-your-face trivialization of what was once a living being," she said. "It just demonstrates such callousness and insensitivity."

The bank, with a $4,000 price tag, is described on thecheeky.com as "the piggy bank of all piggy banks."

The website states the bank is "designed for anyone who has far too much money and loose change."

"It's a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug. Make your plush overpriced apartment complete with this little guy," states the website. "We don't actually kill the piglets; they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use."

The bank is said to take up to 12 months to produce from the time of order.

The Winnipeg Humane Society was notified about it by someone who noticed it online, said White.

She has sent an email to the magazine to express her disappointment, as well as to the website, requesting that it stop selling the item.

She said she has not received any response.

$4000? That's a bit steep. $200 maybe...

...which reminds me: the roasted suckling pig at Kirin is delicious!

I personally think taxidermy is sick.
Just the fact of it's like having a corpse in your room.

yea i dont think i will be paying $4000 to save some coins LOL

Lol I saw this in Vancouver magazine.
There is no way a live piglet costs that much
go raid your local highschool's bio lab for some fetus
Diy ftw
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Originally Posted by Matlock (Post 7181664)

Lol I saw this in Vancouver magazine.
There is no way a live piglet costs that much
go raid your local highschool's bio lab for some fetus
Diy ftw
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haha bio12 pig fetus
i did the dissection years ago and i still remember the rancid smell..dont know what they used as preservatives
even the human cadevours at ubc don't smell that bad

^UBC has human corpse for students to dissect? damn..

maybe its another bonsai kitten prank.

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Originally Posted by shenmecar (Post 7182345)

maybe its another bonsai kitten prank.

It's not a prank, you can buy it on the website.

http://thecheeky.com/?p=26

Man, you have to wait for 12 months and pay for 4g? screw that.
I rather buy a cheap piggy bank and put some change and use it as needed.

^ You seem to be missing the point of this "luxury" item.

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 7182192)

haha bio12 pig fetus
i did the dissection years ago and i still remember the rancid smell..dont know what they used as preservatives
even the human cadevours at ubc don't smell that bad

Formaldehyde? Yeah it smells pretty nasty...

^ it didn't smell like formaldehyde.

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Originally Posted by Slifer (Post 7182231)

^UBC has human corpse for students to dissect? damn..

i didn't dissect it..so it was more just like Body Worlds..but close up haha.