Entry 004 - Pig (avarus porcos)
Pigs are notoriously greedy animals. Pigs can dig up an entire field of crops in less than a week. This is partially why Minecraftians discovered redstone, so that they could create machines that automatically grew and harvested enough grain and carrots for a pig to live on. Pigs are a very big responsibility for farmers and citizens alike. Luckily, the best trained to handle them are the Testificates.
When a pig is given to a Testificate master, the pig is branded and given a unique name, usually relating to the family of the Testificate in question. Then it is ridden around a track to breed a strong pig with plenty of muscle, but also some fat. Then the Testificate, using the unique bond the two species share (a shared ancestral language), teaches the animal how to behave around a farm, and where to eat. Then finally after all this training a farmer can purchase the perfect pig at market.
However, it never used to be this way. In fact, pigs used to be quite wild, running around Minecraftia and ruining all the crops they could find. Ancient tribes of new users ran around trying to hunt them, and in the process discovered that they possessed the most succulent meat. Thus was the unanimous decision made to farm them to perfect maturity... and then kill them.
So now pigs are a cash crop, or cash livestock to be precise. But what is their future? Recently, pigs have begun to be out-competed by cows in the savannah and chickens in the forests. Will they survive another dozen centuries? Only time will tell.