Watch These Adorable Baby Pigs Frolicking in the Sunshine

[bemildred]

Proof that having a pet pig would be incredible

A trio of piglets with Babe levels of cuteness have just arrived at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, N.Y. and thankfully there’s video evidence.

The three little pigs are siblings, two male and one female. They’re known as Juliana pigs or teacup pigs because of their small size. This breed of pigs never grows larger than 65 lbs.

In the video released by the zoo, the piggies can be seen happily munching on grass and mugging for the camera. People that want to see the pigs in person can buy tickets on the zoo’s website.

http://time.com/3989721/baby-pigs-zoo-video/

[MoonRiver]

1. I love pigs!

When I'm physically up to it again, I want to visit Farm Sanctuary or the Gentle Barn. And yeah, pigs make good pets, if only they were allowed in more residential areas.

[tblue]

2. Did you know Jon Stewart & wife are doing just that?

Bless you all. I love animals, and too many of them live unnecessarily tortured lives.

[MoonRiver]

5. Good for the Stewarts!

No animal should be tortured its entire life!

[navarth]

11. +1

I like having an opportunity to agree with a Hillary supporter. We are totally together on this issue.

[dieter]

8. Me too - YUM

Especially when served with eggs and biscuits.

You know someone had to go there.

[navarth]

12. No I didn't know that.

And I still don't know it.

[MoonRiver]

20. Somehow you must think that is funny.

Maybe in junior high. :eyes;

[onehandle]

3. Wagging their tails like puppies. nt

[shenmue]

7. Yay!

[shrike]

4. A word of caution about pigs

They're very smart, but can be very difficult to handle. Remember the pot-bellied pigs craze? A lot of them ended up abandoned or at Humane Societies when owners realized they weren't up to having a pig as a pet. It's like anything else, know what you're getting into.

[Brainstormy]

6. saw the sniffing of the breeze but

missed the frolicking. Wrong video?

[SusanaMontana41]

9. Oh my god. I thought you were talking about Republicans. My apologies to the pigs. n/t

[azurnoir]

10. Now ya went and done it - internal conflict because they're absolutely darling

but in my head I'm seeing this

[navarth]

13. I found a way to solve that conflict

DON'T DO IT. See? No conflict.

[azurnoir]

14. and there in a nutshell you have why I would never have a pet pig :)

but they are really cute

[navarth]

16. cute? hmmm

for me, it's just that I know them to be intelligent fellow creatures capable of fear, pain and despair.

And I would not have anybody like that murdered so I can enjoy some fucking bacon.

But I know!!! That's just me. I wouldn't enjoy disagreeing with a fellow Bernie supporter.

[question everything]

15. Frolicking or "pigging out"

[KittyWampus]

17. Teacup Pigs are NOT miniature pigs. The only way to keep them small is STARVATION.

These pigs all grow to be about 100 pounds.

http://www.teacuppig.info/

In 2012, as a favor to a friend, Canadians Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter adopted a three-pound (1.4-kilogram) "mini-pig" named Esther. Or so they thought. Within two years Esther wasn't so mini. In fact, she weighed 500 pounds (227 kilograms).

"We didn't want to believe it," says Jenkins, "but at four months it became painfully obvious she would be larger than we thought. She grew about three-fourths of a pound a day. And she's still growing now."

Like thousands of others before them, Jenkins and Walter had been duped into thinking that their tiny pig would stay tiny—perhaps small enough to fit in a teacup—and make as good a house pet as any dog or cat.

But as the couple soon learned, those promises are essentially marketing ploys—ones that unscrupulous breeders have been using more and more frequently over the past 15-plus years. Since 1998, the number of "mini-pigs"—a catch-all term that characterizes just about any small-breed pig—in the United States and Canada has risen from 200,000 to perhaps as many as a million.

To keep the animals' size down, many breeders have been inbreeding and underfeeding their pigs, telling buyers that piglets are actually adults, or—as in Esther's case—passing off commercial pigs originally intended for food as a smaller breed of pig.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140930-animals-culture-science-miniature-pigs-breeders-sanctuaries/

[valerief]

18. No. They DON'T need to be pets, at least, not in a crowded urban or suburban setting.

Dogs and cats and parakeets are just fine.

But they are cute. And I don't eat pork.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Awww! They are so cute!

[CrispyQ]

21. We babysat a pot bellied pig once - a pet of a woman I worked with.

It was a delightful weekend! What an amazing creature! Inquisitive, friendly. We brought our dog over. The pig wanted to play but our dog wasn't sure what to do.

[John Poet]

22. I thought this was about the GOP debates!

oink oink

[Cleita]

23. They are great pets, a lot like dogs and very smart.

Also, they are very clean. People think that they are dirty, but they are forced to live in dirty conditions as farm animals.