{"id":321,"date":"2017-01-06T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/01\/06\/family-forced-to-move-6-times-because-of-huge-pet-pigs-snoring\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:43:54","slug":"family-forced-to-move-6-times-because-of-huge-pet-pigs-snoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-forced-to-move-6-times-because-of-huge-pet-pigs-snoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Forced To Move 6 Times Because Of Huge Pet Pig\u2019s Snoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A woman from southern China who bought a small pig as a pet after she was promised it would not get bigger has seen it grow into a 150 kg porker, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/news\/\" title=\"View all posts in news\" >news<\/a>paper report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"\">A woman from southern China who bought a small pig as a pet after she was promised it would not get bigger has seen it grow into a 150 kg porker, according to a newspaper report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.png\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fox_cZPYi4lskh47CupERfBrAwpa?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"278.04487179487177\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-forced-to-move-6-times-because-of-huge-pet-pigs-snoring\/#The_pet_pig_pictured_at_home_Photo_Handout\" title=\"The pet pig pictured at home. Photo: Handout\">The pet pig pictured at home. Photo: Handout<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-forced-to-move-6-times-because-of-huge-pet-pigs-snoring\/#The_pig_in_its_bedroom_Photo_Handout\" title=\"The pig in its bedroom. Photo: Handout\">The pig in its bedroom. Photo: Handout<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_pet_pig_pictured_at_home_Photo_Handout\"><\/span>The pet pig pictured at home. Photo: Handout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>It has meant the woman\u2019s family from <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/shenzhen\/\" title=\"View all posts in Shenzhen\" >Shenzhen<\/a> has had move home six times because neighbours have complained about the animal\u2019s snoring, the Southern Metropolis News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who is now in her 20s bought the piglet seven years ago when it weighed only 4kg, the article said.<\/p>\n<p>Its appetite began to increase after a month and it was soon eating everything its owner offered, including snacks, vegetable, drinks and fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2.png\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FvUa7R_SthKrANvM1C2p2P2Zt0Mg?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"665.5982905982906\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_pig_in_its_bedroom_Photo_Handout\"><\/span>The pig in its bedroom. Photo: Handout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Only after it grew to 20 kg in about six months did the owner realise she had been cheated, but her whole family were reluctant to give the pig up, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The animal usually sleeps on a mattress in the corner of a bedroom and receives regular showers to remove the bad smell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually give it two or three showers a week and more in the summer,\u201d the woman\u2019s younger brother was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours have kept complaining about the pig\u2019s snoring at night, forcing the family to change apartment six times.<\/p>\n<p>During their latest home removal on Tuesday, they had to hire five people the move the pet, the article said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GIC.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from southern China who bought a small pig as a pet after she was promised it would not get bigger has seen it grow into a 150 kg &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[60,306,27,865,230],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","tag-china","tag-hiredchina","tag-news","tag-pet","tag-shenzhen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10544,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}