Hell has frozen over – I’ve finally found an issue where I can be Team PETA totally and unequivocally. Last week, Nadya “OctoMom” Suleman mentioned that she was seriously considering getting a pet. OctoMom was trying to decide between a dog (the choice of her 14 kids) and a pet pig (Nadya’s choice). PETA balked, sending out a public statement that actually seemed reasonable and measured. It’s as if someone at PETA is trying to use logic and common sense to try to speak to OctoMom. Like they don’t know how crazy this woman is.

Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman is thinking about buying a pet, but PETA doesn’t think a new member of the family is such a good idea for the mother of 14 children.

“In today’s uncertain economy — and with all the demands that come with raising 14 children — we urge you to reconsider adding two more dependents to your family,” PETA’s Michelle Cho wrote in a letter to Suleman.

The unemployed mother of 14 — who relies on public assistance to pay for her eight nannies — said last week that she was considering adding a pet to the mix.

“For a couple of years, the kids have been asking for a dog,” Suleman said. “I’ve actually been looking into a pig, like a little one.”

(Suleman’s attorney, Jeff Czech, told Usmagazine.com that the pet would be “probably a dog — probably a Shih Tzu.”)

PETA, the world’s largest animal rights organization with more than 2 million members, hopes Suleman will reconsider.

“Like children, pigs and dogs are intelligent, social beings with complex needs,” Cho wrote in the letter, given exclusively to Us “They require a lot of attention, space, and exercise as well as a huge financial commitment.”

Suleman said that if she were to buy a pig, it would wear a diaper and live outside the family’s $564,000 La Habra, Calif. home because of its smell.

“Keeping a pig outside and making him or her a playmate for your children — who do not understand a pig’s many needs and will only pay attention to him or her when it suits them — is not an acceptable way to treat an intelligent animal such as this,” Cho wrote.

Instead of new pets, PETA encourages the mom to help her children make friends.

“We hope that your recent move to your new home will allow your children to form fast friendships with kids in your neighborhood with whom they share similar interests,” Cho wrote.

From US Weekly

People who diaper their animals make me sick. And no, I’m not talking about those odd occasions when your little yapping dog has diarrhea, I’m talking about diapering your pig as a long-term waste solution.

Considering OctoMom is crazy, what’s the real story behind her desire to have a pet pig? Has she switched over from Angelina-worship to George Clooney-worship? Clooney memorably lived with his pig Max for many years – it was the longest relationship Clooney ever had with anyone outside his family, actually. Clooney would never put a diaper on Max. Max was Clooney’s true love – and for OctoMom to attempt a diapered pseudo-copy is just obscene.

Here’s Octo-mom shopping at Target yesterday after getting breakfast for her kids at McDonalds and dropping them off at school. She also got issued a ticket by a cop for illegally parking her car outside the school. Credit: Bauergriffinonline.com