piglet
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The piglet was caught by someone else and taken to the West Los Angeles Animal Shelter, which put the animal up for adoption five days later because no owner had come forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
An endangered piglet the size of a "grapefruit with legs" when she was born has made her debut at Chester Zoo, conservationists have said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Today, that piglet is Tucker—a 200-pound porker who has outgrown the family bathroom, shredded a couch and required the installation of heavy-duty horse panels to keep him from escaping the yard of his Arizona home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
The phrase “Balls to the Walz” was everywhere, as were pictures of the Minnesota governor nestling a piglet in his arms with a beaming smile.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2024
Every day Elya carried the little piglet up the mountain and sang to it as it drank from the stream.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
On Clarkson's Farm, he has shown an interest in doing what he can to make his holding ecologically sound and was visibly upset when piglets were inadvertently killed by their mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
Amy Finkel brought her two daughters with her, smiling broadly while snapping photos of piglets as the girls hugged a rabbit.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
“I’m gonna give him one of those piglets we got. For a present.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
