By Sarah Begley
Gone are the days when college students managed their anxiety by gorging themselves on bacon. Today’s university students would rather use pigs for cuddling.
Students at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. have organized an event for their peers to kick back and relax during exam season by spending a few minutes petting and playing with piglets, Mashable reports.
The organizers had a popular event last year featuring a puppy room to raise money for guide dogs. This year’s piglet room will raise funds for the same cause, and the seven piglets are joined by barnyard friends like two goats, a donkey and chickens. But most folks just seem excited about the #PigletRoom.
[Mashable]
Mini Horses and Toddler Friends May Be the Cutest Thing Ever Published in LIFE
![111961241.jpg 3-year-old cover girl Cynthia West with Chauncey.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970906.jpg Ronnie getting sized up.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111961206.jpg Ronnie stands uncomfortably with normal horse collar. He eats only four pounds of hay a day compared to 40 pounds for draft horse.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970964.jpg A young girl with Chauncey the miniature horse.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970900.jpg Chauncey and 2 larger horses.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970925.jpg Cedric being held by a trainer.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-06.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970963.jpg Cynthia riding Cedric.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-07.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970895.jpg Cynthia with two miniature horses at the Lilliput Ranch in California.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970933.jpg Cynthia showing some love for Cedric.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970885.jpg Ronnie and the Great Pyrenees are taken for a walk.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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