STY-ER BEWARE

Gal thought she bought 'mini-pigs'

A woman’s squeals of delight turned into cries off shock when the two “micropigs” she thought she had bought ballooned into massive, 330-pound porkers.

Janey Byrne (above), of Lincolnshire, England, was promised that her chic teacup piglets, Meeka and Molly, would grow no bigger than a French bulldog when she bought them seven years ago (right), she said. But her porcine pals quickly grew into pot-bellied beasts about the size of 1,056 pork chops each.

“People noticed their rapid growth and said, ‘They’re not micro-pigs,’ but I wouldn’t listen to them,” Byrne, 47, told Caters News.

“I had no idea pigs could even grow this big!”

The pets turned out to be Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, which typically grow to 200 pounds, unlike “micro-pigs,” which are generally less than 60 pounds.

It wasn’t long before the pigs began hogging Byrne and hubby David’s living room, where the animals sometimes play dress-up and get belly rubs, she said.

“They’re very pampered, too, they’re really girly-girls — they love dressing up,” Byrne said. “I’ve taught them to beg like dogs. Where dogs will give a paw for a treat, the pigs will give their trotters.”

Byrne, a vegetarian, said she communicates nonverbally with Meeka.

“I know her language, and what all her various noises and grunts mean, and I greet her with a special noise,” she said. “She trusts my voice to come to wherever I am.”

The couple bought Meeka for $515 and Molly for $73 — but the pigs have gobbled up a lot more money since then. Medical care and food can run up to $5,280 a year.

Still, Byrne has no beef with the clerk who sold her the porkers.

“A lot of pigs never make it to this age, as they’re sent off to the slaughterhouse,” she said. “I couldn’t let that happen to Meeka and Molly — they’re my babies.”