There are some events so momentous that you always remember where you were when you heard about them. They’re usually historic, frequently shocking, often profound. Well, adjust your records accordingly, because we need to add one to the list: where were you when you first learned about spoilt pig syndrome?

For many of us, it will have been this week, when Lena Dunham was a guest on Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Hang. They were discussing how some people – “not just women, but a lot of women” – always overdeliver and as a result become exhausted and resentful. Dunham then started talking about her pet pigs, acknowledging that it sounded like a detour from the subject, but assuring listeners that it wasn’t.

She remembered how, early on, she had realised that this was a different kind of pet, one that necessitated a specialist to teach her how to take care of it. She turned to Susan Magidson, “the pre-eminent pig trainer and rescue artist of our time”.

On Magidson’s weekly Monday night video class, called........

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