# Do hogs jerk when they piss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 20, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760 "2006-01-20T01:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/1 "2006-01-20T01:53:50Z")
**I** don’t, but I may not be a typical pig. T. Harry Williams, in his biography _Huey Long_, relates the following anecdote: > [@](#): > > One senator who was especially importunate called Huey one night at the Roosevelt Hotel. He asked for something, something more, that Huey was reluctant to grant. Huey would say, whenever the senator paused: “You’re a hog.” Finally he yielded. But he snarled a last gibe into the phone: “The only difference between you and a hog is that a hog jerks when it pisses.” So I ask Dopers who might have agricultural or veterinary experience: 1. Do hogs really jerk when they piss? 2. If so, is it all hogs, or females or males only? 3. If the latter, does it have anything to do with the hog’s legendary [corkscrew-shaped penis](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_060.html)? ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/2 "2006-01-20T10:07:20Z")
There’s a British vet who has written a series of autobiographical books under the pseudonym James Herriot. One anecdote that I recall is that a client called him out because her newly acquired pet pig had a problem urinating. The problem turned out to be that the pig was pissing in “fits and starts”. Herriot explained to the slightly embarassed client that this was perfectly normal for male pigs, and that every other male pig he had encountered urinated the same way. Whether that’s the same thing as “jerking” I don’t know! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/3 "2006-01-20T10:21:32Z")
> [@matt](#): > > …pissing in “fits and starts”… “He asked for something, something more…Huey would say, whenever the senator paused” (the senator was making a “stream” of requests, and being piggish) “You’re a hog.”. So a combination of too many demands, and not letting Huey really respond to him in the phone call? I think **matt** nailed it! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/4 "2006-01-20T10:51:24Z")
> [@matt](#): > > There’s a British vet who has written a series of autobiographical books under the pseudonym James Herriot. One anecdote that I recall is that a client called him out because her newly acquired pet pig had a problem urinating. > > The problem turned out to be that the pig was pissing in “fits and starts”. Herriot explained to the slightly embarassed client that this was perfectly normal for male pigs, and that every other male pig he had encountered urinated the same way. Whether that’s the same thing as “jerking” I don’t know! “Wrote”, past historic. Glasgow-born but Yorkshire-resident Alf Wight, better known as James Herriot, died some years back. I’ve forgotten the name of that woman, but the pig was called Nugent, and she also had a Pekinese named Tricki-Woo who was prone to going “flop-bott”, as she described its habit of rubbing its rear end on the ground when it was troubled by impacted anal glands. “Siegfried Farnon”, Wight’s boss (don’t know his real name) died a little later. I hear he was upset about how he had been portrayed in the books, although on my reading of them the worst that could be claimed was that he could be intensely annoying, and he had many counterbalancing virtues, among them generosity, competence and the respect of his clientele (who regarded him with something approaching awe). /hijack ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/5 "2006-01-20T17:01:37Z")
I have nothing to add except…I really need to be more awake before perusing here too much. First time I saw the thread title I thought it said ‘Do hogs jerk off when they piss?’ and that just seemed so wrong. Back to my coffee now… ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/6 "2006-01-21T12:25:05Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I’ve forgotten the name of that woman, but the pig was called Nugent, and she also had a Pekinese named Tricki-Woo who was prone to going “flop-bott”, as she described its habit of rubbing its rear end on the ground when it was troubled by impacted anal glands. I’d forgotten the name of the pig, but Tricki-woo’s owner was Mrs. Pumphrey IIRC. The peke was carried around on a cushion and ate a lot of cake, hence its chronic flopp-bott problems! Mrs. Puphrey was also in the habit of placing bets on horse races in Tricki-Woo’s name. > [@Malacandra](#): > > “Siegfried Farnon”, Wight’s boss (don’t know his real name) died a little later. I hear he was upset about how he had been portrayed in the books, although on my reading of them the worst that could be claimed was that he could be intensely annoying, and he had many counterbalancing virtues, among them generosity, competence and the respect of his clientele (who regarded him with something approaching awe). Never heard that he was upset. My reading of Siegfried is that he had great integrity, and tremendous personal warmth. I guess reading someone else’s account of yourself must be an odd experience though, like hearing your recorded voice for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hogs-jerk-when-they-piss/340760/7 "2006-01-21T12:31:40Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I’ve forgotten the name of that woman, but the pig was called Nugent, and she also had a Pekinese named Tricki-Woo who was prone to going “flop-bott”, as she described its habit of rubbing its rear end on the ground when it was troubled by impacted anal glands. Mrs Pumphrey.