We worry about shark attacks instead of fatal dog or pig attacks -- both far more common.

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The story is, apparently, widely believed: a dog signifies Monday, a pig Wednesday.

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McDull himself is a pug-nosed little porker with a big brown eye, a feature inherited from his mother, and he sounds rather like a Cantonese version of Babe, the movie pig who thought he was a sheep-dog.

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