7/23/15: From her tiny hooves to her glistening snout, Olive the mini-pig is a star. Eva visited with the Instagram celeb — she has over 24,000 followers — at her home in Winooski with her humans Sophia Shems and Sam Rabe. Sophia shares photos and videos of Olive snorting, begging, rambling and cuddling with Milo the cat and hopes to educate the public about life with pet pigs.

You can follow Olive on Instagram @oink_itsolive.

Music: Phil Spitalny, “Betty Boop,” “One More Kiss”

This episode of Stuck in Vermont was made possible by

Hotel Vermont and Vermont Tourism

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This article appears in The Animal Issue July 2015 (Theme Issue).

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...