The phrase ‘piggy bank’ has been taken to new and controversial lengths to the distress of animal welfare groups after an Irish designer launched a money box made with a real piglet. The taxidermied swine is the brainchild of creative designer Colin Hart from Belfast who claims to have received death threats as a result of the product, which comes complete with slot and cork stop. Billed as the ‘piggy bank of all piggy banks’, it takes 12 months to make and comes in at a cost of $4,000 (£2,518), with half expected up front and the rest payable on delivery. Animal rights campaigners who have called the Piglet Bank ‘sick’ and ‘inhumane’, but Colin said: ‘Most people understand it is a bit of a joke but I have had death threats from some people. ‘We are not going to kill a piglet, we wait for one to die of natural causes. That’s partly why it can take over 12 months to make.’I've had all sorts of crazy messages, one person even emailed me to say they thought it was disgusting that I was breeding pigs with a slot in their back. But what people don’t understand is we are not killing pigs, there’s no animal cruelty involved.(MailOnline)