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Photo: Sam Saccone, The Fayetteville Observer What do you do if your eight-year-old autistic son finds dogs too hyper and cats too dull? If you're Lisa Pia of Fayetteville, North Carolina, you get your little boy a pet piglet. A black potbellied pig, to be exact. Little did Pia know she was violating a Fayetteville ordinance banning the keeping of swine. But Pia insists it's just plain hogwash and is fighting to get the law changed on behalf of her son, Anthony. "Soon as he saw her, it was love at first sight," Pia told WRAL News, recalling Anthony's first meeting with the female pig they named Loopey. Anthony doted on Loopey, wrapping her in a towel like a baby. As the piglet grew, ...