"I love a senator who knows how to castrate a pig, ride a hog and cut the pork in Washington, D.C.," Walker said, taking the stage amid hay bales and country music at the Central Iowa Exposition grounds in Boone.
In Tonga, he rode a ferry with squealing pigs and boxes of livestock.
If 22 million views on YouTube mean anything, that baby monkey riding on a pig says something about our fascination with interspecies animal relationships.
We can turn a shrimp into a foam, so why shouldn't we ram a dozen birds together or make a chicken ride a pig wearing medieval armor (a real creation: the helmeted cock)?
In the 2006 series of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, one of the show's researchers picked someone they knew to win the opportunity to ride a giant model pig and dislodge cash in a competition called Jiggy Bank.
The Chinese show will retain some games from the UK programme, including Jiggy Bank, in which the winner of a phone-in competition gets to ride a giant model pig full of cash.
Piers Morgan: After Bush's fall from grace, Piers Morgan's Daily Mirror ran the gleeful headline: "You'd have to be an idiot to fall off, wouldn't you Mr President," adding that "if anyone can make a pig's ear of riding a sophisticated, self-balancing machine like this, Dubya can".
Mr. Abbey, who was born before the Great Depression, grew up riding a horse to school; doting on a pet pig, Bertha; and rigorously avoiding athletics of any kind.
