Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Aaaaaahhhhhh

My friend sent me this... I couldn't resist posting it. I'm a cat lover (and dog lover and animal lover) Isn't it ridiculously amazing and sweet! (read below pics)
HOW strong the maternal "instinct'' is!!! God is good-





Pork Chops or cubs?
In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger, after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly were a litter of weaning pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??
Take a look...

Now, please tell me one more time......
Why can't the rest of the world get along??"

4 comments:

Sue said...

Oh, wow, that is just so beautiful!

Thanks for posting.

(BTW, it's really hard to read the blue-on-blue text)

Manuela said...

Sue- Yeah, don't you just love this mama tigress and the piglets. They are so obliviously happy.
I changed the font color to super dark blue, thanks for the tip. Hope it works...The other color had looked okay on my computer, but I know each screen is different

Sue said...

Yep, it looks good now :)

Kent said...

that is cute. Julie really loved it.