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Pigs Too Big To Be Pets In Florida?

  Down in Florida right now, a city council is considering an amendment that involves figuring out pig weights, and determining whether people can keep pigs as pets. Among other issues, the proposed law is re-considering whether people can have pigs as pets if they weigh over a certain weight, and if they meet other requirements.   You can read about it here, but basically, a big hubbub has come out of some people holding pigs as pets, paying their annual domestic licensures, and other people seeing people not as pets, but as farm animals. That's not new, of course, and these sorts of issues periodically pop up in various other states around laws when people question whether pigs are even allowed to be pets.   Georgia's pigs as pets rule is a little bit difficult to decipher (read all about it in its original format here), but it appears that you are allowed to have "livestock," including swine, so long as they have proper vaccinations and veterinary permits attached and required, as released and approved by the State Veterinarian.