{"id":769101,"date":"2022-01-27T22:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/watch-tennessee-familys-pet-pig-might-be-worlds-oldest\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:28:45","slug":"watch-tennessee-familys-pet-pig-might-be-worlds-oldest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/watch-tennessee-familys-pet-pig-might-be-worlds-oldest\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Tennessee family&#8217;s pet pig might be world&#8217;s oldest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tennessee-familys-pet-pig-might-be-worlds-oldest.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EHmiJG_mksc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Knoxville family says they have the oldest pet pig on the planet\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHmiJG_mksc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Tennessee family said their pet pig might be the oldest in the world after reaching 24 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Hunt, 28, of Knoxville, said he was only 4 years old when his parents got him a pet pig named Snort for his birthday.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he was younger, he acted a lot like a dog. He&#8217;d be out roaming around the yard and he was never in a pen or nothing,&#8221; Hunt told WBIR-TV. &#8220;He just lived underneath the porch, and I&#8217;d come outside and lay with him and act just like a dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hunt family said Snort is now 24 years old &#8212; older than Baby Jane, a pig that died at age 23 and is listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest-ever pig in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt and his mother, Karla Hunt, applied to have Snort recognized by Guinness World Records, but they said the application might be in jeopardy due to their lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like we have a birth certificate,&#8221; Trey Hunt said. &#8220;So all we have is pictures of when we when I got him and pictures of, you know, me and him, you know, different ages.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The family is in communication with Guinness about verifying Snort&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we could prove it, I know we could get in,&#8221; Karla Hunt said. &#8220;But you know, there again, I don&#8217;t know how we&#8217;re gonna prove it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hunts said Snort is now blind and deaf, and his front legs sometimes give him trouble, but he is otherwise still in good health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never expected him to live as long as he&#8217;s lived, but he&#8217;s always been a healthy pig,&#8221; Karla Hunt said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been to the vet one time in his life, and that was when he was neutered as a young pup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212; A Tennessee family said their pet pig might be the oldest in the world after reaching 24 years of age. Trey Hunt, 28, of Knoxville, said he was only 4 years old when his parents got him a pet pig named Snort for his birthday. &#8220;When he was younger, he acted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}