Whether it’s a cat or a 75-pound micro pig, we all love our pets like children. And for one Mayfield Heights woman, loving does not mean letting go.

According to Fox 8, Crystal Rosa has owned micro pigs, also know as “teacup” pigs, for over five years, walking them on leashes in public and watching them sun in her front yard. Entirely unaware a city ordinance had defined pigs as livestock in the 1950s, Rosa was shocked to learn the city wanted to confiscate her pets. 

In defense, Rosa has now written up a petition which she intends to present, along with her mini oinkers, Monday at a Mayfield Heights city council meeting to encourage council members to revise the outdated code, Fox 8 says.

Teacup pigs, coming in and out of vogue since the 1980s, are relatively similar to dogs in everything from size to friendliness. Rosa said her pigs were just as easy to train as dogs and are cleaner. 

If after Monday night Rosa is still forced to give up her pets or leave town, she’s already made her decision. She’ll move out of the home her grandparents built and buy a new house in a town that accepts her and her hogs. 

This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2015.

Brittany is a blogging intern who keeps the web up-to-date with news stories and blogs. Before her internship at Cleveland Scene, she wrote for the video game news site Revue Labs as well as oversaw Kent State University’s diversity publication Fusion Magazine. Brittany is originally from New Jersey but is currently residing in Kent, Ohio where she is finishing up her journalism degree at Kent State. She appreciates good coffee, good pizza and well-behaved cats.

7 replies on “Mayfield Heights Woman Fights to Keep Her Piggy Pets”

  2. Go live in the country then you hillbilly and not the middle of the city. What’s next, this trashy woman will want chickens and a miniature cow to be allowed. Please don’t sign thus petition, let her leave

  3. I know who this is and she is lying, she also has a full grown regular pig that she keeps upstairs in her bedroom in a dog cage. It’s black and it bites. Don’t sign this petition. I agree with the other guy, go live on a farm. Not the city

  4. There have been pet pigs in Mayfield Heights before this. at least 20 years ago the re was a pig named Penny living in the city

  5. Ok to clarify a few things
    1. I did not give this interview, I never once mentioned teacup, micro, or pocket! I’ve had pigs for 5 years I’ve learned the ropes and I know there is NO SUCH THING
    2. I am not a hillbilly just a pig lover
    3. The “big black pig” I hide away in my bedroom cause it bites? You mean my first pig the one I bought and was lied to about how big he would be? The one that lives on my best friends farm for the last 2 years!
    People, please know your facts before you go bashing me!
    Thank you

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