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Cinders, a six-week-old piglet from Thirsk, North Yorks, England suffers from mysophobia, a fear of mud. So her owner Andrew Keeble,42, who run a sausage company with his wife and keep about 200 pigs on their 1,000-acre farm put her into a pair of Wellington boots. And now, she is a happy little piglet…

This seems like another one of those viral marketing ploys to me, Cinders seems to be fine with sticking her snout in the mud. They obviously? got the idea to help with the whole Farm Crisis Network promotion.

“She’s scared of mud, but her brothers and sisters are quite happy in it.

“We’ve never come across this before. They are born ready to go and explore, but she never really liked going in the mud.”

“She’s more of a pet really now and she’s going to live a very long and happy life,” he said.

The young saddleback has been chosen by the couple as a mascot for their campaign to raise money for the Farm Crisis Network, which supports struggling farmers.

Cinders the piglet wearing Wellington boots

[via bbc news]