Just like in the tale about the three pigs, houses are basically made out of three things: straw, sticks and bricks.

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The farm owner, Norman Ellis, had called in the local vet because three of his pigs had gone lame.

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In one year alone, federal managers trapped and killed more than 32, 000 pigs from 28 states and collected thousands of samples to check for the nearly three dozen diseases feral pigs are capable of carrying and passing on to humans, livestock and other wildlife.

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Three once-living, now-stuffed pigs sit on little wooden chairs, red-checkered napkins tied around their throats, real knives and forks tied to their hooves.

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"People think it's weird and a novelty, but they're really sweet and really smart animals, " says Timm Chiusano, who keeps two potbellied pigs on the ground floor of his three-story brownstone in Brooklyn.

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