Remember micro pigs? In 2009 The Guardian ran a non-ironic article titled “which miniature animals make good pets” and earnestly advised purchasing not one pygmy goat, but two (lest the first feel lonely – duh). George Clooney and Victoria Beckham flaunted their £700 hogs. Paris Hilton kept hers in a handbag.
The craze for mini animals (largely pigs, but also goats, foxes and seahorses) is being revived by Tiktok and Youtube where influencers swan around with mini piglets, pygmy goats, tiny horses and more. Miniature animals are “smaller, more practical, take up less space and eat less” reads a starry-eyed recent headline in French newspaper Le Monde,........