Americans are showing more interest in owning miniature cows, miniature goats, miniature donkeys and other diminutive farm animals.

Mini horses and ponies can command similarly high prices, while mini pig prices start under $1,000 and small goats, typically the most affordable of the bunch, can be bought for a few hundred dollars.

Americans are showing more interest in owning miniature cows, miniature goats, miniature donkeys and other diminutive farm animals.

These petite, pet versions of livestock are pot-bellied pigs, miniature horses and pygmy or dwarf goats. Not only their smaller size makes them attractive backyard (or household) pets.

They are good pets. The raising of miniature goats is not an earth changing event. Fortunately, zoning permitted, you can keep goats almost anywhere you live.

Amy Calore, a registered nurse at Essentia Health, pets a miniature goat held by Angela Abernathy of Duluth Goat Yoga during a therapy animal event Tuesday at Essentia's Miller Dwan Building.

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