A New York City family is selling their house and leaving the city because they refuse to part with their pet pig. Danielle Forgione has started a petition to make pig ownership legal in New York City.
New York City health code forbids keeping them as pets, forcing pig owners to operate in secret. One of Forgiones neighbors squealed on them — reporting the pet pig. The Foriones family say they got a pig for emotional support after a relative was killed in a motorcycle crash. The Forgiones chose a pet pig, instead of a dog, because the family’s children are allergic to dogs.
Even Mayor Bloomberg’s daughter, Georgina, who adopted a pig from an animal shelter in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy and brought it to Gracie Mansion on Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman for the mayor says Georgina learned it was illegal and took the pet pig back to her home in Florida the following day.
Pet pig activists’ are hoping ally New York State Sen. Tony Avella, will get a law enacted that will legalize pet pigs as emotional support animals.
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