A video in which a pig rescues a goat

Daww.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Don’t eat meat.
- Diogenes
  
  Medicine derived from plants saved my life. Don’t eat plants.
  - Talia
    
    The original plant alone probably wouldn’ t have helped you much. Don’t eat the scientists who made the medicine.
    
    Unless scientists are particularly tasty. I’m not sure.
    - chaopoiesis
      
      Scientists are pigs.
      - theophrastvs
        
        typing o’ Ham(let):
        
        We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service. Two dishes, but to one table. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Dinesh-Vishwanathan/100003320312363 Dinesh Vishwanathan
    
    ♫ It’s okay to eat plants cuz they don’t have any feelings.
    ♫
    - Diogenes
      
      Just because you can’t hear them, doesn’t mean they aren’t screaming when you eat them alive.
    - ImmutableMichael
      
      Can’t hear you. There’s something in the way.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Add a lamb, and you could make piglamkid. Delicious!
  - http://twitter.com/dreamling Stacie
    
    A Kid’lleatIvytoo wouldn’t you?
    - Felton / Moderator
      
      Mairzy doats and pigs save goats and liddle lamzy divey…
http://twitter.com/the_damned_fool the damned fool

Saved by the buoyancy of adipose.
chellberty

spiderpig spiderpig
- dawdler
  
  does whatever a spiderpig does…
BarBarSeven

That goat is the 47% or Amanda Palmer, and that pig is Mitt Romney or a pick up musician.
- Tribune
  
  Thanks to the modern miracle of bioengineering they can be all 6 in one organism.
adamrice

Could also be titled “A video in which a man holding a camera does not rescue a goat.”
- Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
  
  Aww I’m sure the guy would have jumped in to save it, had the goat actually started to drown… probably.
- ocker3
  
  Also: a video in which a man behind a fence calls for someone who actually works there to save one of their animals
  - Tribune
    
    Maybe it is a video of someone calling the trained pig to rescue the goat, again.
semiotix

Fake! Viral video for GoPro! That pig just wanted to eat that goat! Animal abuse! Goats are excellent swimmers! Faaaaaaake!

Just covering the bases. Carry on.
- Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
  
  Pff GoPro virals ALWAYS include GoPro in the title :P
cfiber

Subtitle: “A Video in which a Man Throws a Pig into the Water: Panicked Pig Tries to Climb onto Drowning Goat”

It’s a sequel to: “Man Throws Goat into Water”

Coming soon: “Man Throws Pig and Goat back into Water”
Aleknevicus

“… you don’t eat a pig like that all at once!”
- sarahnocal
  
  One of my all time favorites
David Speller

That’ll do pig, that’ll do.
- Thomas Trotter
  
  Ah, you beat me to it. So I’ll go with: That’s Some Pig.
John Callender

I couldn’t help but deconstruct this as follows: Man has a clueless baby goat which he knows will just flail without knowing what to do. Man also has a clueful baby pig which he knows will swim straight as an arrow for the exit at the back of the pond. So: man positions camera, dumps goat in center of pond, carefully drops pig in pond in a location that puts the flailing goat on the direct path between pig and exit, and films the result. Bam: YouTube ad revenue.

My prediction: if the pig had been dropped a foot or two to either side, it would have plowed right past the goat without slowing down.
bobcorrigan

And so, the vast cauldron of goat stew loses some of its savour, but gains a soupçon of pig.
http://www.eileengunn.com Gunn

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- EH
  
  that’ll do, gunn. that’ll do.
dave moore

I love the way the guy with the camera cries “Goat in the water, goat in the water” at the start, as if it’s some equivalent of “Man overboard”
- grimatongueworm
  
  Universal distress call among livestock lifeguards.
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- skabob
  
  CUIDADO! LLAMAS!!
grimatongueworm

“What do I look like, Charlotte? A messenger boy?” {{Paul Lynde voiceover implied}}
saraeanderson

Oops, somebody got there.
http://www.fatjerry.com Dimmer

It may just be me, but it really looks more like a fcuk attempt rather than a rescue attempt. Squeal, like, a piggy goat!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Oh, you kid!
  - beforewepost
    
    Got your goat did he?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670645534 Bill Barminski

I actually think that there was a person holding the goat in position. If you watch the video the gost almost looks like it’s trying to climb onto a submerged object. But if you watch it full screen you’ll see a blurred flesh colored hand in the first seconds. And the way the goat is moving indicates that he is being pulled backwards.

so fake.
10xor01

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Ipo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjQtzV9IZ0Q
Adrian

What-a pig!
JoJoRight

That guy is a complete tool for allowing the goat to almost drown, simply because he wanted to make a youtube video.

He’s a real pig – and not the hero kind.
kiptw

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ashabot

Yay for compassionate pig!
- Katie Dawson
  
  The pig is definitely more compassionate than the people who eat pigs!
http://www.doggo.net doggo

Sometimes the cynicism and negativity on the Internet is soul-crushing. Can’t we just enjoy some harmless animal antics, smile, and move on?