A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet in Germany cuddle up as if they were family after the baby pig was abandoned by its own mother.

德国的一只大型农场狗最近承担起猪妈妈的职责，收养了一只被母亲遗弃的迷你小猪崽。

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For the Woodens, the final blow was the collapse of the family pig farm.

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But despite the efforts of today's "locavores" (who eat only locally produced foods), the pre-modern world of Babe the pig frolicking about the family farm is long gone.

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Family pig farms in Iowa, the main hog-producing state (and the second-largest farm state after California), used to have up to 500 sows, each producing about 20 piglets a year.

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