{"id":444087,"date":"2010-03-18T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95099a5970b"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:02:20","slug":"your-morning-adorable-piglet-and-dog-play-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444087","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Piglet and dog play together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HNVOAxRwH04&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HNVOAxRwH04&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Color us impressed by Cleo the pot-bellied pig, whose doglike play interaction with Ginger the dog we find to be as hypnotic as <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/10\/your-morning-adorable-guinea-pigs-battle-over-a-cucumber.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Unleashedblog+%28L.A.+Unleashed+Blog%29\">watching guinea pigs fight over a cucumber<\/a>. We could watch all day!<\/p>\n<p>Beyond rolling and playing like a dog, Cleo&#8217;s talents include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YdefYuxGXQ\">sitting on command<\/a> (owner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shewulfe\">shewulfe<\/a> notes that she learned the trick in just 15 minutes) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wy8QoSF5I7Q\">playing soccer<\/a> (albeit probably not in accordance with soccer governance organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldfootball\/lawsofthegame.html\">FIFA&#8217;s official rules<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I had heard [pigs] are very smart,&quot; shewulfe writes on her YouTube page, &quot;but I didn&#8217;t have any idea how smart they really are.&quot; (Smart is right &#8212; a recent study showed that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/11\/pearls-before-swine-animal-cognition-study-says-pigs-may-be-smarter-than-we-think.html\">domestic pigs were able to learn how mirrors work<\/a> and use the reflected images they saw in them to investigate their surroundings and find food.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/07\/pig-named-sue-shows-agility-isnt-just-for-dogs.html\">Pig named Sue shows agility isn&#8217;t just for dogs<\/a><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/05\/your-morning-adorable-lamb-plays-soccer.html\">Your morning adorable: Lamb plays soccer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><em>Video: shewulfe via YouTube<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color us impressed by Cleo the pot-bellied pig, whose doglike play interaction with Ginger the dog we find to be as hypnotic as watching guinea pigs fight over a cucumber. We could watch all day! Beyond rolling and playing like a dog, Cleo&#8217;s talents include sitting on command (owner shewulfe notes that she learned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}