Lethal Dose

No, not wiglets, though I love that word (and wiglets and piglets.) These:

NEWBORNS FIRST CURLY PIGLETS IN COUNTY FOR 50 YEARS
08:00 - 05 December 2007

A litter of rare Mangalitza piglets are the first curly-coated porkers to have been born in Lincolnshire for 50 years. The perky piglets are a distant relative of the renowned, but now extinct, Lincolnshire Curly Coat - the last pig breed to have died out in the UK.

Born a week ago on a rectory outside Fulletby, near Horncastle, the seven hairy beasts are the size of rabbits and are stripey grey and cream in colour. At the moment they are keeping close to 700kg mum Ginger in their makeshift wooden home, although they have begun to walk and open their eyes.

And the births have also been an eye-opening experience for owners Brian and Sylvia Codling. Although they had been preparing for the birth of the pigs, their calculations had led them to think the due date was in January.

Now the retired couple are having to go through a crash course in rearing the first pigs they have ever owned. Brian said: “I can’t sleep at night. It’s a bit like having children. For the last week both of us have been waking up at 2am, wondering if they are all right.”

After hearing that 15 rare Hungarian Mangalitza pigs had been brought to the UK, he decided to buy four - Ginger and Mangel for breeding and Pepper and Wurzel for their meat. (NO!)

For Brian, breeding the porcine rarities is a way of bringing back a relative of the Lincolnshire Curly Coat, which died out in 1972.

Please don’t smash the pigs!

Piglets’ mum, Ginger.
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Better than a lump of coal, these things are actually poisonous (of course, they are from China.) From the EWG:

CSI Fingerprint Toy (dangerous powder included)

Beware if your children put the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™ Fingerprint Examination Kit on their holiday wish lists. It doesn’t take a sleuth to detect danger in these kits — the fingerprinting dust contains tremolite, one of the most lethal forms of asbestos.

Even worse, children are supposed to blow on the asbestos-contaminated powder after dusting for fingerprints, which means they will likely inhale lung-damaging, cancer-causing asbestos fibers.

Get it while you can, because it’s still on shelves. Yep.