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Dioner Navarro: “This pig is going to live like a fricking princess in my house”

Dioner Navarro

Chicago White Sox catcher Dioner Navarro is introduced during the team’s annual fan convention in Chicago, Ill., Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGAZINES OUT

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Yoenis Cespedes bought a $7,000 hog and sent it to a butcher, raising the ire of PETA and causing everyone else to fantasize about ribs and pulled pork. Dioner Navarro of the White Sox, however, wanted people to know that his relationship with pigs is considerably different.

Navarro tells Dan Hayes of CSNChicago.com that he got a micro pig named Sassy for his wife. And it’s in no danger of going off to the micro butcher. “This pig is going to live like a fricking princess in my house,” he said. Navarro, his wife and kids know from treating animals well. Hayes reports that they have a French bulldog, a bearded dragon, a Nigerian Uromastyx, a chinchilla and a cat.

I approve of the cat. The rest sound like a lot of work, but whatever floats your boat.