Chris P. Bacon Honored on National Pig Day

We noticed this item on the Huffington Post today, which included a very familiar pig, Chris P. Bacon.

You met , here on Nashua Patch, during he meteoric rise to fame after his YouTube video went viral, after his owner connected with Nashua's handicappedpets.com, which makes small wheelchairs for dogs – and now pigs.

Today, on National Pig Day, Chris P. takes his place next to other esteemed factual and fictional pigs in history including Hamm from "Toy Story," Babe from the movie by the same name, Piglet from the Hundred Acre Woods and Miss Piggy, everyone's favorite Muppet pig.

The story makes reference to a Los Angeles Times story that pinpoints the holiday's origin as circa 1972, by sisters Ellen Stanley and Mary Lynne Rave. to celebrate “one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals.”