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As weird as it seems, Octomom Nayda Suleman is thinking about getting a pig to entertain her brood of 14. Needless to say lots of questions have popped up in the newsroom regarding this story. (Like how many kids can a pig suckle anyway?)

Here's the latest:

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, 33, gained notoriety after giving birth to the world's longest-living octuplets on Jan. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. Suleman is single, unemployed and already had six other children younger than 8. She was supporting the family using food stamps, disability payments and student loans.

Since the news of her unusual family broke, Suleman has cashed in on her fame, selling interviews and photos for undisclosed sums.

She recently purchased a $564,000 house in La Habra and has been seen shopping for designer clothes in Los Angeles.

Suleman said if the family were to buy a pig, it would wear a diaper and live primarily outside because of the smell.

From Gloria Allred:

Attorney Gloria Allred and Angels in Waiting (AIW) will hold a news conference Wednesday March 25, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. at 6300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1500, L.A. to reveal the true facts about why Angels in Waiting is no longer providing supportive nursing care to Nadya Suleman's octuplets and other children.

Neither AIW nor Ms. Allred will be available for comments today March 24.

The Dr. Phil show will be releasing a press statement today.

Our photog Raul Roa got shots from inside Octomom's new house, thanks to a guy from RadarOnline who took Raul's camera inside the La Habra home of Nadya Suleman.

What do you think?

Photog Raul Roa has been camped in front of Octomom's new La Habra digs in hopes of getting "the shot" of Nadya and two of her kids coming home from the hospital.

In the meantime, he's blogging from the scene and sending a postcard or two like this one describing a "former journalist-turned child safety expert who spent all day long child-proofing the home "to the highest standards" for a cool $2500."

Did you catch the story about former NFL running back Travis Henry?

You might say he's the male version of Whittier's own Octomom - except he's going to be paying a steeper price for fathering nine children than Nadya Suleman will ever pay for giving birth to 14.

Henry, who played for three NFL teams including the Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans and Denver Broncos was recently ordered to pay $3,000 a month for one of the kids. Additionally he fell $16,000 behind in support for another.

Clearly the child support amounts were determined by the size of Henry's final contract with the Broncos. In 2007 the team gave Henry a five-year, $25 million contract.

By the time he was cut last year, Henry had received just $6.7 million, according to the New York Times.

Because of positive drug tests and an arrest for drug trafficking, there's little chance Henry will ever play in the NFL again.

As "baby daddy" to nine children from nine separate women, Henry went to court seeking a reduction in the amount of child support he would have to pay. Some of the "baby mommas" and their attorneys say no way. They point to the shear amounts of money Henry reportedly squandered on cars, clothes and other women.

But is he any more irresponsible than Octomom?

I say no. At least Henry appears to have made some effort to support his kids. Suleman on the other hand has been relying on taxpayers to support her and the brood.

Consider the facts:

Octomom used a combination of food stamps, disability payments and student loans to provide for her first six kids;

She lived with her mother in a home that was nearing foreclosure;

Knowing this Nayda nonetheless decided to have herself implanted with six frozen embryos and brought eight fatherless children into the world on Jan. 26.

I highly doubt she had any intention of paying for these kids on her own. After all, estimates for the monthly care of Octomom's sickly brood run hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.

Where's the outraged judge in this case, threatening to lock Nadya up for having kids she can't support?

Where's the Department of Children and Family Services that intrude into the lives of so many other Angelenos?

Nowhere of course.

Does anyone think that Dr. Phil or RadarOnline, or Gloria Allred are going to stick around once the audience dries up and the ratings dwindle?

Does anyone believe for a second when these media whores say their interest is motivated solely out of compassion for the children?

I hope not. Because you can guarantee the next time Paris or Lindsay or Britney or Rhianna or some woman who has nine babies and a brood of 15 turn up, the cameras and the money will be gone.

For now, unlike a washed up former NFL running back, the Nadya freak show makes money. But eventually (like it did in Henry's case) the money's going to run out and we'll be on the hook for supporting those kids and their shiftless mother.

Let's hear it for double standards.