He is at once awesome and terrible, both enticing and revolting. His body is bean bag, coated in a fabric which may have been painted with a roller brush? His head and hooves are … terra cotta? Definitely capable of causing damage. He was given to me by a weird, hot friend at uni, who named him Jingo because of his attractive yet repugnant nature (cute word with a terrible meaning.) He was a frequent subject of mine at art school:
(Slides!!)
Once, his head broke (yes! there is wadded up newsprint inside!) and before I fixed him, a photog friend took some snaps of “a girl bonding with her wounded pig”:
I re found him recently and noticed his tag, “PETigrees.” I wonder if there are more like Jingo? I wondered, which yielded this horrorshow of a google image search:
(that cat! Satan)
But what I really wanted to know was, who did this? And why? Who were these people at “PETigrees,” who thought this was a good idea? I found this trademark info (https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/petigrees-inc.html - ooh, 1991? He wasn’t that old when I met him, then. How so thrashed already?? So many questions). This led me to “Karen Tandy” in CA. Is it her http://www.karentandy.com/about/ ? Was Jingo a product of this person’s misspent youth? Dare I get in touch and ask?
lantern comments: this is amazing
(I asked Karen Tandy if she was PETigrees. She never answered 💔 Message lost? Wasn’t her? …Washed her hands of the whole affair?)
Anyway, now he haunts my bookcase.
…But look how well he sits on my knee, like a good, terrifying boy!
Also you could get him on Etsy: (haha, “keep out of reach of children”)
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/742574295/vtg-15-petigrees-pig-beanbag-doll-large?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
"This listing is for this adorable stuffed beanbag pig doll by Petigrees. Features pink cloth beanbag body with twisted pigtail, leather collar and metal bell and terracotta ceramic head and feet. Tag reads PETigrees, Made in Philippines. His little piggy face has so much personality and the..."
…and now Etsy thinks I’m into this:
(feet hooves?)
elequigan: 😂❤️👏 I bloody love these random posts Thea my god
mattsnz: JFC I was not prepared for that image search page
lantern: Great logo:
rowan: So good
lantern: #hall-of-fame ‘d
navs: This reads like an episode of This American Life. @theamyers I hope to hear more about Jingo in future episodes.
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“Are you my mommy?”
(Yes, that's a couch.)
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Recently sighted in Auckland:
(I don't know what the fuck that thing is. But I feel he and Jingo are spiritual brothers.)