Posts tagged "piglet"

Spring is right around the corner, and nobody is more ready for it than this little piggy. The pretty farm girl from Daily Squee has been thinking of hot, sunny days all winter long. She just can't wait until it's warm enough to wallow in a nice, cool mud puddle. Until then, the sleepy sweetie will rely on a well-placed accessory and her sweet dreams to get her through.

Daily Squee asks a good question regarding this video of a tiger cub and a piglet: Are we witnessing a scene from "Winnie the Pooh" come to life? Is Tigger spooning Piglet, reminding us that some of the finest children's-literature-turned-into-film gave us some of the cutest animal characters?

Granted, this Tigger is more laid-back than his animated alter ego, and Piglet didn't have spots, but we'll take what we can get -- especially if it's a video of a tiger cub spooning a piglet. Does it get any better?


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We've said it before and we'll say it again: we love piglets! This little piggie from Daily Squee looks so wee, wee, wee that he may have been the runt of the litter. Who's feeding him? Perhaps the kindly farmer's daughter, who saved the runty porker from the cold, unforgiving hand of her father. Maybe down the road, as the pig matures, he'll go on to be featured in the Maine state fair with the help of a talented spider.

OK, we'll admit it: we love piglets but we don't know much about them outside of what we learned from children's literature. But we're sure of one thing; this is some pig!

Uh-oh; someone's been "spotted!"

Little Kim Gordon, a 6-week-old piglet named after the bass player for legendary band Sonic Youth, didn't start life as a rock star. In fact, she had a pretty rocky start, falling out of a transport truck in South Dakota and wandering aimlessly for hours, suffering road rash from her fall and sunburn from the exposure to the elements. But this little pig's luck turned around when a couple made a wrong turn and discovered the injured animal.

Lanore Hahn -- who was traveling with her boyfriend on his rock band tour -- saw the scared piglet and captured her, intending to return her to her rightful owners. However, after asking around and examining her injuries, Hahn learned that the little porker had mostly likely fallen off a transport truck and, if she were turned into the authorities, they'd probably shoot her. While the pig fell into a 10-hour slumber, Hahn decided to take her home to Wisconsin, where she tended to the piglet's injuries and began to nurse the sweet swine back to health.

Late Thursday night, Kim Gordon was delivered to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. According to Farm Sanctuary, the piglet has already lived up to her rock star name, sleeping in late on her first full day at her new home.

To support Kim Gordon or any other of the animals living at Farm Sanctuary, check out how you can get involved.

This photo from the Daily Squee is adorable, but the little piglet looks annoyed. Clearly he's thinking that dressing up an adorable baby animal is a waste of time and costuming resources.

"Can't you see that I don't need accessories to be cute, people? Don't you realize that pigs love mud? All I wanna do is cover every inch of my fuzzy little pig body with oozing, gooey, wonderful mud. But no! Some neat freak armed with two pairs of inexplicably tiny wellies is conspiring against me. Curse this footwear!"


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Pig Pig is, you guessed it, a pig (well, a piglet) in LaCenter, Wash. who defied death thanks to her farmer owner's quick thinking. The newborn's life had gotten off to a rough start when Pig Pig's mother, deathly ill from complications from labor, accidentally rolled over onto the piglet, crushing her "flat as a pancake." Fortunately owner Jeff Olsen was nearby and stepped in with heroic mouth-to-snout CPR, breathing new life into the pretty pink porker.

And that was just the beginning of Pig Pig's adventures. When her mother died shortly afterwards, Jeff's wife Heidi placed the newborn piglet with a new litter of Red Heeler puppies, hoping that the doggie mother would take to the piglet. "The mama dog looked at me like, "are you crazy?" But nature took over, her mothering instinct took over and she brought her in as one of her own," says Heidi.

Now the only problem with healthy and happy Pig Pig is that she thinks she's a dog -- and refuses to have anything to do with the other pigs on the farm.

A sick little piglet escaped death and now pals around with a pack of six puppies, reports the Daily Mail.

Well, this is definitely the most darling piglet we've seen since runty Wilbur Arable. Just look at his wittle face popping out of that ridiculous floatie! Sure, it must bruise the ego to be forced out of one's pen by rampaging, gluttonous siblings (though you can't blame pigs for gluttony; that's just how they roll), but it sure looks like Farmer Johnson's makeshift spa treatment soothed this little piggy's soul. Terrific! Radiant! Some pig!

We think this little piggy would probably feel right at home off the coast of Big Major Spot.