Is That PEDv Knocking at your Door?

November 13, 2013 — 

Do you want to keep the PED virus from pounding on your ornate sculpted bronze pig door-knocker? If so, you can use your trusty 15-inch fixed blade Bowie knife to cut all ties with any known risk factors. Once all risk is removed, you can sit back, pull out one of your hand-turned wine-bottle stoppers and pour yourself a glass of red while reading your 1925 copy of Common Diseases of Swine harkening back to a simpler time of hog cholera, FMD and PRV.

As you glance around the room, you suddenly notice your 1760 copper engraving of a wild boar. Remembering that feral swine may pose a risk of disease spread, you rush to make sure all the fence gates and barn doors are closed. Once back at the office, you stop in the dispensary to count your bottles of Enroflox^TM 100. Luckily all 12 are still there. Confident in your ability to stop a respiratory infection, you decide to consult your American Heirloom Pork Cookbook to find something for dinner.

Following a fabulous pork loin dinner with all the trimmings, you thoughts shift to the carved statute of breeding pigs on your mantle -- I’m not sure why you leave that thing on your mantle, maybe you should move it somewhere more “appropriate”. Anyway, your spouse notices the “glimmer” in your eye but rebuffs your advances saying, “There’s a hand-blown glass flying pig’s chance in hell that’s going to happen until the dishes are done!”

Vacation time is coming up and you’re struggling to decide whether to go pheasant hunting with your three friends in Riverside, Iowa or maybe Minnesota fishing for Walleye. Just then you notice the G Loomis fishing rod with the Pflueger Patriarch Spinning Reel sitting over in the corner under the framed copy of Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” speech. You pull out your i-Pad Mini and start making travel arrangements to Minnesota.

The AASV Foundation auction will be here before you know it. We’ve already received some incredible items (as highlighted in this fanciful tale) so be sure to check them out. But, we need more items and your support if the Foundation’s going to reach its $100,000 goal again this year. So, visit the items up for bid and consider donating an item to support the cause.