The Destructive Power of a Bored or Hungry Pig

Bored and Hungry Pigs Can Get Destructive

As I noted in my article "Can Pigs Be Destructive?", pigs definitely have the ability to do some damage when bored, frustrated or hungry. But, I thought the best way to get this message across is through pictures of pigs doing exactly that: being destructive.  Of course, these are usually out of the ordinary events.  Most of the time, pigs can be very well behaved.  And some things are just normal pig behavior.  For instance, they love shredding up their blankets and beds to make them better.  They don't think of it as destruction... to them it's home improvement.  And that has largely been the extent of our pigs' destructive behavior.  They've ripped a bunch of blankets and beds.  Oh, and the couch, which is technically their bed too.  
Now enjoy a pictorial tour though: What Mischievous Pigs Can Do.  I've included the story provided by the individuals sharing these wonderful images.

Lizzie Ronsick wrote, "My Rupert gets in my night stand when I don't pick him up at night. He wants me to cuddle him and sometimes I don't wake up to his oink. In turn he knocks everything off of the shelf."

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Brittany Kyanne wrote, "When a 200+ pound pig enters a brand new duck house and gets stuck forcing you to completely demolish and destroy that house to get pig out.

"Broke into the freezer. (Multiple times)"

"Flour Power!"

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Trish Brown Jones shared, "If you zoom in on the window casings, you can see where the boys have eaten most of them."

"You can see where they’ve eaten my drywall here."

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Billie Jo Corum Ripped wrote, "the seats off our kitchen chairs and ripped the fabric to hell."

"The carpet and padding in our bedroom"

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Nicole Rhoades shared, "Only half the destruction after looking for the granola aka crack."

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Tasha Woodard Solomon explains, "This is where the threshold between rooms used to be! Lol. All the doorways look like this. It’s the only thing she has ever destroyed so it’s not that bad.

​It’s her fabulous underbite. She pried those strips right up."

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Dawn Braudt Bleeker pointed out, "Joy is hiding behind the desk."

Nic Rich Lily describes that their pigs, "ripped through the sheets to get to the down bed topper...."

Chrystal Lynn Limon points out that the "only thing my Belle has ever destroyed was her bed."

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Karen Buehrle Overlin stated that this is "Oliver after he stole a bag of shredded paper."

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Elizabeth Keyser shared these pictures of Rosie and Josie's efforts.

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Delaine Rangno - "My deck. Everything tossed. Bernard wanted in the house, and I wasn't home."

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Leanna Sherfy Myrick points out that, "This used to be covered in lanolium.... Tink, Penny, Tut, and Goblin."

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AnnaMarie Klassen Drywall,they have got 4 different spots in 4 different rooms,tell me again why I love my pigs lol

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T​rish Brown Jones One more for ya! Just came home to this. Oscar ripped the bottom drawer face off my oven tonight. Thank God he’s cute...otherwise I might have gotten upset.

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What should be equally clear as the fact that pigs can be destructive is that we, the companion humans to these amazing animals, wouldn't have it any other way.  We adore our porcine family members destruction and all.