RivkahChaya:
I’m not familiar with this. I know there are plenty of Haredim who object to any entertainment except that which has a purpose to teach a lesson of some sort as being a waste of time, but I never heard of an issue with talking animals per se.
Lord knows, Haredim have no problem telling at least one story about a talking snake and one about a talking donkey.
I know, however, of people who have no problem with fish suddenly (in a manner of speaking) sprouting legs, for example. 
Baseballs are not made from horse hide anymore they are cow hide now. This changed in the mid 70s.
This is insane. Then you should not have been allowed to play baseball (horsehide) nor pet a dog or cat or hold a leather bound book (even if it is from a cow, the cow would very likely not have been kosher). This is fetishizing the pig, making something special of it, which does not appear in the kosher laws un the bible.
OK, then the baseballs I played with when I was a kid were probably horsehide, which is when my parents would have been in a position to say I couldn’t. Lots of Jewish kids played baseball. I don’t watch that much baseball anymore, not even the world series games. New York is a baseball state, Indiana isn’t.
Some people seem to be really sensitive about images of pigs, for whatever reason. The firm that prints the international edition of the NYT blacked out pigs’ faces
earlier this year. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25884523
The pigs were being raised to be eaten, but it was the faces, not the tasty bits, that were blacked out.