14 DAY TRIAL // Animal activists are fuming – and so are animal lovers – because of a new “product” made available on The Cheeky. For $4,000, the website offers the ultimate piggy bank: one made from a real piglet.
The Cheeky is a website that professes to “challenge pointlessness” by ridiculing and disregarding all norms, as we were also telling you a short while back.
To do that, they have now come up with an idea for a unique (for lack of a better term) piggy bank – why use plastic or other material, when you can have the real deal?
“Designed for anyone who has far too much money and loose change, this is the piggy bank of all piggy banks. It’s a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug,” The Cheeky says.
“Make your plush overpriced apartment complete with this little guy,” the website further notes. However, you need more than a handful of loose change to get your hands on one of these piggy banks.
“The piglet bank will take up to 12 months to produce from the time of order. We expect half the money up front and half when the piglet had been completed,” the same product page notes.
For those thinking “this is animal cruelty,” The Cheeky has the answer: rest assured, no one’s breeding and killing the piglets specifically for this purpose.
“Just so you know that we don’t actually kill the Piglets, they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use,” the same post on the website notes.
Had all of this been true, the outrage would have been more than justified. The case attracted international media attention after the Vancouver Magazine included the piggy banks in its latest Holiday Gift Guide, Mother Nature Network reports.
Since then, Colin Hart of The Cheeky has been receiving lots of hate mail and even death threats even though, he says, the concept was only a joke: he hasn’t made and / or sold any banks until now.
He didn’t even think anyone would be mad enough to pay this kind of money for such a ludicrous thing, let alone ask to have a piggy bank made of a real dead animal.
“Most people understand it’s a bit of a joke. We’re not harming any animals. We’re not even considering it. It’s quite ridiculous what’s happening,” Hart told the media the other day.
Regardless of that, many remain unconvinced – and still outraged that anyone would be this cruel towards animals as to make piggy banks of real, albeit dead, piglets.