these are not the pigs from the post
I love pigs.
I think they’re incredibly intelligent, wonderfully expressive, and just surprisingly interesting animals. And smarter than dogs. If you don’t believe me, watch this, this, this and this 
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So when I got the chance to speak with Katherine and her pig family, I was already pretty excited.
But it turns out these pigs aren’t just intelligent. They’re extremely wise, too. 
And Chester, in particular, had quite a lot to say.
Katherine had a whole list of questions for him. About her life. About her home. About the future. About why pigs had such a strong presence in her life.
And, as it turns out, Chester had answers and some very clear opinions. He told her that pigs are protective. That they’re grounding. That they get things done. And when Katherine asked what she could do when she felt stuck, his answer was wonderfully pig-like:
Because apparently, nothing can stop a pig. And, he said, Katherine has that ability too. She just gets distracted sometimes.
I have to admit, I loved that.
And Katherine had a very interesting, more general question for him.
How did pigs come to be on Earth?
Chester’s answer was… well, let’s just say it wasn’t quite the answer you’d find in a biology textbook. 😃
He said that pigs were originally brought here to help. That there was, as he put it, “a big soup going on on Earth” — and that many beings came here in response to the same call.
But something else happened along the way.
Chester said that pigs have evolved alongside humans over thousands of years. That the pigs we know today have become deeply intertwined with us, and that domestic pigs are very different from the wild pigs who never chose that path.
Then he said something that really made me stop and think.
He said that domestic pigs are “part human and part wild.” And that humans and pigs have become so integrated over the millennia that, when humans eat pigs, they don’t realise they’re “eating parts of themselves.”
Now, I want to be clear: this is what came through during a HeartKIN Connection. I’m not presenting it as a scientific statement about pig DNA or claiming that pigs literally have human DNA.
But as a message?
I found it incredibly thought-provoking. Because what if we looked at pigs differently? Not simply as animals we happen to keep, breed, eat or experiment on. But as intelligent beings who have shared our lives, our homes, our history and our evolution for thousands of years.
And perhaps that’s part of what Chester was pointing towards.
“The relationship between humans and pigs isn’t one-way.” We have changed them. And they’ve changed us.
And then I asked him how he felt about the way humans treat pigs.
His answer was pretty blunt. Humans, he said, often do to pigs – and other animals – what they do to themselves and to each other.
“It’s a cycle of abuse.”
Wow 🤯
It’s not the first time that animals have told me they’re a reflection for humans. But before, it had always been about the relationship between an animal and their human — the way a particular animal might mirror something back to the person they share their life with.
This was different. This time, the message was about all of us.
I hadn’t really thought about animals inviting us to take a good, hard look at ourselves before.
Told you pigs are interesting and wise… 😄
This story was part of a HeartKIN Connection. I’ve changed names to protect my client’s privacy.
Jennifer Shlomovich is an Alignment Coach and Vegan Educator who helps women create healthier, more compassionate, and more authentic lives.
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