Pig, Fighter Against Roaches

Pig’s specialty in life is play fighting with humans.  She’s a fierce, brave fighter who’s not afraid to stand up to humans when the situation calls for it.  Very much in touch with her wildest instincts, Pig also has a hunger for catching Palmetto Bugs.  Down here in Florida that’s what they call big, nasty creepy nocturnal roaches.

Many a night we’d lie awake listening to scuffling noises in the corner, followed by the sounds of little ferret feet tearing exitedly across the floor.  In the morning, we’d find only roach legs and a gutted roach body.  Where were the insides? We feared the answer.

Then one day a confused roach ventured out during daylight hours and we got to see Pig in action.  Yes, she would hunt the roaches, kill them, and for a gruesome finale: eat their insides which consisted mainly of cloudy white goop.

This was horrifying to us, but after some consideration we were extremely proud of our Warrior Ferret.  It was actually the most badass thing we’ve seen a ferret do, in real life.  (Check out youtube for some truly grisly badass things ferrets do…just type in “ferret eating mice” or “ferret meets red squirrel”).

Pig has learned that the sound of rolled up newspaper or a shoe hitting the ground hard means a human has discovered a roach.  When she hears that sound, she comes running from even the remotest corner of the apartment, and even if she’s deep asleep inside a drawer.  She tries to get in on the killing and steal the body out from under us.  Our battle against the palmetto bugs then takes on a secondary aspect:  keeping Pig from eating the nasty thing.  She will grab and run, though, and sometimes she will win.  That’s because she has her own personal Roach War.