<P> Even among domestic animals, runts often face rejection . They may be placed under the direct care of an experienced animal breeder, although the animal's size and weakness coupled with the lack of natural parental care make this difficult . Some tamed animals are the result of reared runts . </P> <Ul> <Li> Wilbur, the pig from Charlotte's Web, is the runt of his litter . </Li> <Li> Orson, the pig in Jim Davis' U.S. Acres is a runt who was bullied by his normal siblings . The strip changed direction when he was moved to a different farm and settled in with a supporting cast of oddball animals . </Li> <Li> Shade the bat from Silverwing is a runt . </Li> <Li> Fiver from Watership Down is a runt . </Li> <Li> Clifford the Big Red Dog was born a runt, but inexplicably began to grow explosively until he became 25 feet tall . The narratives of many Clifford stories work on the advantages & disadvantages of his colossal size . </Li> <Li> Goliath II, in the Disney film of the same name, was a runt elephant . Hardly bigger than a mouse, he was an embarrassment to his father, Goliath I who was a giant, and resented by the other elephants of the pack who had to avoid stepping on him . He redeemed himself when he proved to be unafraid of a mouse . </Li> <Li> Ruth, the hero Pernese dragonnet from Anne McCaffrey's novel the White Dragon, is a runt whose egg is smaller and has a harder shell than all others in the clutch . He would have died save for the intervention of young Jaxom . </Li> <Li> Jock was the runt of a litter of Staffordshire Bull Terriers who was saved from drowning by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, who later wrote about his life with the dog in Jock of the Bushveld . </Li> <Li> Cadpig, a female Dalmatian puppy in Dodie Smith's children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, is the runt of her litter . Thought at first to be stillborn, she is revived by Mr. Dearly . (In the animated Disney film, the scene where she is revived is kept, but she is otherwise unnamed . And in the live - action Disney film, Cadpig is still a female aptly named "Two - Tone". The animated television series, however, does include Cadpig, though she is a separate character from Lucky . </Li> <Li> Babe, the eponymous piglet hero of Dick King - Smith's book (and the popular film based on the novel), is a runt . In fact, he was chosen for the competition at which Farmer Hoggett won him essentially because he was a runt - his runt status therefore saving his life and shaping his destiny . </Li> <Li> Scourge from the Warriors book series was a runt . </Li> <Li> The title character from the novel Runt, as the name implies, is the smallest of his wolf litter . </Li> <Li> The dire wolf Ghost in the A Song of Ice and Fire book series was the runt of his litter of six pups, as well as an albino . He later grows to become the biggest of the six . </Li> <Li> Seabiscuit, a famous race horse, was a runt who triumphed over larger horses . Seabiscuit's story is chronicled in an eponymous book, and a movie based on that book . </Li> <Li> Little Ann from Where The Red Fern Grows was the runt of her litter as well . </Li> <Li> Runt, an omega wolf from Alpha and Omega series, is a runt among his pack and family . </Li> <Li> Daggie Dogfoot from Pigs Might Fly by Dick King Smith was the runt of his litter, and it was because he was born a runt he was taken away and came back . He later learns to swim and then saves his pig herd from a flood . </Li> <Li> Patchi, the main character from Walking with Dinosaurs (film), is the runt of his pachyrhinosaurs litter . </Li> <Li> Arlo, the main character from The Good Dinosaur, is the runt of his siblings, but born from an big egg . </Li> <Li> Rex, the title character of Rex the Runt, is a runt </Li> </Ul> <Li> Wilbur, the pig from Charlotte's Web, is the runt of his litter . </Li> <Li> Orson, the pig in Jim Davis' U.S. Acres is a runt who was bullied by his normal siblings . The strip changed direction when he was moved to a different farm and settled in with a supporting cast of oddball animals . </Li>

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