[ He's just a little thing for now, but he's already starting to grow quite a bit under the attention of her and one of the castle's hounds; she won't be able to hold him for much longer. ]

Apparently. He's a handful, but one of the hounds in the kennels had puppies, so between the two of us he's being taken care of.

[ Oh :c The idea of anyone hurting animals is not one that she enjoys, but at least Peeta was fairly smart about it and didn't introduce any others to his mother. ]

Back where I'm from, some people have small pigs as pets.