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Megan Fox's animal love includes Piggy Smalls

Mar 29, 2009, 11:00 GMT

01/11/2009 - Megan Fox - The \'Transformers\' actress has turned her Hollywood home into a small scale zoo since moving out of the house she shared with ex-fiance Austin Green in February. © Bob Charlotte / PR Photos

Megan Fox has a "private animal kingdom."

The 'Transformers' actress has turned her Hollywood home into a small scale zoo since moving out of the house she shared with ex-fiance Austin Green in February.

Megan, 22, reportedly keeps five dogs, two cats, two birds a squirrel, and has recently also brought home a pot bellied pig named Piggy Smalls.

She said: "I've just moved to a new place with a huge garden, so all my pets have plenty of room. The garden has become my private animal kingdom and I love it.

"I can't pass a rescue shelter without hawking a new critter home."

A friend of the star revealed she has always been keen on animals, and as a youngster had a habit of playing with snakes in her hometown of Rockwood, Tennessee.

The source said: "Everyone was scared of rattlesnakes expect Megan. She used to give her parents a real headache by trying to play with the rattlers.

"Now she's into cuddly creatures. I think she's lost without something to cuddle up to at night, because she can't make up her mind which man to romance."

Megan stars as Mikaela Banes in 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen' alongside Shia LaBeouf and Rainn Wilson, which is released in June.