{"id":585053,"date":"2023-01-27T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=585053"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:54:01","slug":"a-woman-treats-her-miniature-pig-like-a-toddler-and-it-even-talks-with-electronic-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-woman-treats-her-miniature-pig-like-a-toddler-and-it-even-talks-with-electronic-buttons","title":{"rendered":"A woman treats her miniature pig like a toddler and it even &#8216;talks&#8217; with electronic buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigs are cute. Well, piglets are cute, but they usually don&#8217;t stay those tiny little snorting things very long. That is unless you get a mini pig and name it something majestic like Merlin. (I would&#8217;ve gone with Hamlet McBacon, but no one asked me.) Mina Alali, a TikTok user from California , has been going viral on the internet for her relationship with Merlin, her miniature pig. Of course, there are plenty of folks out there with pigs&#8212;mini pigs, medium pigs, pigs that weigh hundreds of pounds and live in a barn with a spider named Charlotte. But not everyone carries their pig around on adventures like it&#8217;s their child. Alali&#8217;s videos of her sweet interactions with her little pig have gotten a lot of people wanting their own piggy, but training Merlin wasn&#8217;t always easy . According to Yahoo Finance , the 25-year-old told SWNS that she has wanted a pig her whole life and finding Merlin was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigs are cute. Well, piglets are cute, but they usually don&#8217;t stay those tiny little snorting things very long. That is unless you get a mini pig and name it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}