Chapter 4

Feeding

The sow can expect to be given a reasonably balanced diet, even if her portions are in excess. While the sow may be allowed to eat in a normal fashion, the Owner may have her eat from a bowl or trough some of the time or all of the time. When trough-fed, the sow may be denied the use of her hands and may have to plunge her face into her food in order to take bites. This may be humiliating yet appropriate for a pig. If she is allowed to eat from a plate, she may be disallowed silverware, requiring her to use her hands.

Since the sow doesn’t have the stomach fortitude of a regular pig, her food, or slop, should consist of regular food fit for humans. It may include normal food, plate scrapings and leftovers, food preparation leavings (odds and ends of vegetables), stale crusts, a blended slurry, or anything else her Owner decides to give her. Food, however it may be served, must not be allowed to sit out; it must be fresh and free of bacteria. Her trough food, whatever it may be, should be chopped up into small, bite-size chunks. She may be given all manner of food mixed together, such as meat, salad, and dessert scrambled together. She may find this distasteful at first, but pigs are not picky eaters. Training and punishment should teach her to eagerly eat whatever is given to her.

The sow should attempt to the very best of her ability to eat all that is given to her, up to the point of being painfully stuffed full. Her Owner can stuff her to this point by hand, if need be, or employ the use of punishment to keep her feeding herself. The sow should be stuffed in this manner frequently, if not daily, throughout her duration as a pig. She should be encouraged to treasure feeling stuffed, since being stuffed with food is a sow’s happiest state. It should also serve to increase her eating capacity over time. She may also be required to graze throughout the day so that she is nearly always eating something, or to eat a set amount of food per day (though is must be a reasonable and achievable amount so as not to set the sow up for failure), and she may be punished if she does not eat as often as ordered.

Weight gain

The sow’s primary purpose will be to gain weight. The Owner’s main goal, beyond all other activities and forms of play, is to make the sow grow fat. A sow’s belly is her most important physical aspect and should be made to grow as large as possible. The sow should not agree to this contract if she finds this prospect unacceptable. Whether she loves it, hates it, or is simply resigned to it, the sow will continue to get fatter for the duration of the contract. The sow’s weight gain is intended to transform her further into the pig she agreed to become, as well as to cause humiliation. While the sow may very well enjoy growing fatter, any happiness or pleasure it may bring to her is considered incidental; her weight increase is meant to please her Owner first and foremost. Her Owner will fatten her up like a prize hog for his or her own amusement and pleasure. There can be no negotiation of this condition for it is the raison d’etre of a sow: to eat, to consume, to make a pig of herself.

The rate of the sow’s weight gain may be fast or slow, and will depend solely on her Owner’s decisions in regards to what she’s fed and how much she is required to eat. The sow’s ultimate numerical weight will be the decision of her Owner and she is allowed no say in this decision. The sow must accept that she will eventually reach the goal which has been set for her if she remains under contract. This goal weight can be altered or increased at the Owner’s whim, and the sow must to submit to any such decision even if it means she will grow larger than she ever conceived of being. A sow is a creature meant to be fattened without regard to her opinions of the matter. The Owner is not permitted to force the sow to gain further if she develops any life-threatening health issues which would be exacerbated by additional weight.

The Owner is constrained by only two factors when determining the sow’s ultimate weight - minimum and maximum size allowed. The sow must reach a minimum size of no less than 330 pounds. For this reason, upon entering the contract the sow must be aware that she will be made to grow to at least 330 pounds with no exceptions (barring the emergence of unforeseen medical issues). The sow’s maximum size will remain undefined (as it depends largely on the sow’s body type, health, and tolerance of extreme weight gain), except that her Owner shall not cause her to grow to a size beyond which she would be physically unable to fend for herself without assistance. Any weight below that point will be acceptable. Numerical goals could also include a BMI or body fat percentage to be reached.

Ideally, the Owner’s goal for the sow should be based more on physical factors rather than numerical weight. The sow’s progress should be measured by how far the sow’s belly is from resting on the ground while she is on her hands and knees (the most natural position for a sow). The Owner may judge when the sow’s gaining is complete by when her belly reaches the ground, or by how much of her belly spreads out while resting upon the ground (for example, whether it spreads out wide enough side to side, or whether it’s large enough to touch the ground from just below her breasts all the way to her knees). Her belly hang should be measured frequently. The sow should encouraged to become obsessed with how much her belly hangs while she’s on her hands and knees. She should come to eagerly anticipate the moment her belly reaches the ground, even if its only significance to her is that it means she can then stop growing. The practicality of using belly growth as a marker of progress, however, depends on how the sow wears her fat; if she is extremely bottom heavy and doesn’t gain much in her waist, she would likely reach her maximum allowed weight long before her belly comes close to the floor. In such an instance, other attributes should be used for judgement instead, such as whether her rump and hips have reached a certain width.