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[totoshappylife]

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[jesterka78]

Gloria- the tiniest menace possible. I wish she had stayed this way ;-)

[clockworklozenges]

My players are facing a big fight tonight, wherein some of them may die. However, I'm leagues more excited for the appearance of Lord Bacon-Taste, the current mid-level bbeg's pet micropig who is, like his master, a paladin of Ehlonna. He is good and pure and I bet you that the players will either liberate the oblivious tiny swine from Ehlonna's Crucible, or just yeet him out of a window.

This would not be the first time that my players made attachments to/caused the untimely death of set dressing, such as:

When they befriended a homicidal grand piano which hunted for sport (the bard named it Oscar and played Flight of the Bumblebee as it rammed random creatures into trees in the forest for 'enrichment') then tried to domesticate it, which led to several of them being rammed into and no success whatsoever.

That time they caused a race war between badgers and beavers wearing wooden mech suits (the cleric was sorry that she started the conflict, the paladin finished them off) which resulted in their extinction by way of a Fist of the North Star-style beating and a Thomas the Tank Engine baby-face hydra with man arms.

The paladin put his bear through medical school and used magic items to increase its intelligence stat to 22 which caused it to get an undue attachment to hawaiian shirts and cowboy hats. The paladin then bought a warhorse for the bear because he felt weird riding on the back of someone who had more qualifications than they did.

Or perhaps the most nonsensical, one player naming a random, regular-ass brick 'Mr Brick', killing several people with it, then sending the inanimate non-magical object to therapy to help it get over it.

In retrospect, perhaps I don't want them to meet poor, innocent Lord Bacon-Taste. Well, we'll find out later.

[valsartgal]

A micro pig wearing a tiny raincoat and booties (y'all are crazy if u thought I was going to draw the raincoat)

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いってらっしゃい！ ・ 🐷 ・ From Instagram

[beelzebubskeeper]

Mini Pigs

I’m sure you’ve seen them, on Facebook, on Instagram, the tiniest pig you’ve ever seen. And I mean who can resist?

I mean, he’s wearing little boots, it really is adorable. But here’s the catch, Micro, Mini, and Teacup pigs don’t exist! I made a post on my side blog about the Kunekune pig, the smallest domesticated pig breed, but I felt the need to go more into detail. The above pigs are piglets, they will absolutely get bigger, and much bigger at that. Kunekune are normally 200 lbs and the Potbellied pig, another type that gets pawned as mini, gets up to 300 lbs. 

This is a full grown potbellied pig at a good healthy weight.

Here’s a full grown Kunekune. Kunekune and Potbellied pigs both need at least half an acre per pig to live on, meaning they can’t be house pets. Now, that’s not to say pigs can’t be a companion animal! Pigs are very smart and often times friendly animals but they don’t belong in a house like a cat or dog. They don’t take well to being pets, and much prefer the company of other pigs. According to Gary M. Landsberg of the North Toronto Veterinary Behaviour Specialty Clinic, “Pigs are social animals that under free-ranging conditions live in groups of approximately eight individuals. The groups typically consist of three sows and their offspring. Boars are solitary.” 

Now this problem isn’t new. Breeders started doing this (in the US) in the 80s by inbreeding Vietnamese Potbellied pigs and the New Zealand Kunekune (within each breed not with each other) and often times would malnourish them to keep them as small as possible.  Most often young pigs who are just barely able to be bred are bred so that they can say these small pigs are the parents, or younger pigs are shown in place of the real parents. Some of the members of the American Mini Pig Association like founding member Jaimee Hubert like to say that bad breeders are making it bad for everyone, but I’m of the opinion that ANY breeder who makes the claim to breed “miniature” pigs is working either negligently, ignorantly, or maliciously to fit these trends. I find it very alarming that the American Mini Pig Association even exists giving some kind of fake credibility to the claim of their existence. According to The North American Pet Pig Sanctuary, of the 18 sanctuaries they contacted, the number of pigs per sanctuary is 47. Mini pigs are not real, period.  These sanctuaries as well as some rural APLs have to take in these Kunekune and Potbellied pigs after they outgrow the homes people assume they can keep them in. As with any animal educating yourself about the needs and expectations of the breed is absolutely necessary to take proper care of them. Educate yourself! We love proper animal care here!