Spare A Nipple?

[Oak Kitten]

This is cute. I couldn't resist posting it:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=52611

[GodSistah]

Too cute!!!

;)

~Andrea~

[Darlene]

It is really cute! But one wonders whether the tiger will grow up to love French Bulldogs or eats them. I didn't have to day that. Sorry!:p :rolleyes:
Peace, Darlene

[DaveM]

I've seen baby piglets "adopted" by dogs....I wonder if they just have so much nurturing wired into them that they adopt everything in sight? Neat, anyway.

[mixtymotions]

What a devoted little pooch! I don't think a tiger can retract it's claws *ouch*

[Bat]

My Kookie lost her pup (and almost her life) and her organs...we didn't have her spayed soon enough, and she ended up being dug out under the fence by an amorous shepherd who was far too big to sire anything but disaster.
Anyway, Kookie still produced milk, and we were given a stray kitten, a very young one, who took her on as Mother...Kooks nursed her into a beautiful cat, who was then promptly stolen. But it was great while it lasted. For both.

[Dee]

A Bengal tiger cub that was rejected by its own mother has been adopted by an affectionate French Bulldog.

Very amusing story.

I could spare one of mine, but I'd look even funnier with only one.

Why DO men have nipples again? :p

[Roady]

Geeze from the title I couldn't imagine what you were coming up with Oak. Cute video. I see dog breeders often looking for a "nursemaid" for their pups because the bitch has either died or for some reason doesn't have milk or isn't able to nurse.

I know oxytocin and prolactin are involved in milk production so maybe hormones are what creates the desire to nuture or nurse. Though I suspect in humans it's species specific.

[aabram]

This is reallly cute.... Heaven help the poor dog though when the tiger cub gets older though (Yum yum!!!!!!) :eek:

[Oak Kitten]

I know oxytocin and prolactin are involved in milk production so maybe hormones are what creates the desire to nuture or nurse. Though I suspect in humans it's species specific.

Hey Roady, you've given me an idea! We need to mass produce that stuff and slip it into the diet of Bush Administration officials, Islamist Militants, and the Christian Right.

Oak

[Roady]

Of course they'd have to use a pump for times when they're full of milk-among other things. They'd have to carry it around where ever they go. Cheeney would have his rifle on one arm and his breast pump bag on the other. Maybe he'd shoot himself this time.

With the radical right we'd have to also use some HCG, progesterone and estrogen to stimulate a "false pregnancy." Hec dogs think its the real thing.

Haven't figured out what to do with the Islamist Militants.

Our Motto can be:


http://s7ondemand6.scene7.com/is/image/Mothercare/lv5963
Some Men Pump Iron but Bush Pumps Milk

[Dee]

Dog nurses newborn tiger triplets at China zoo (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070517/tigers_dog_070517/20070517?hub=World)

Thu. May. 17 2007

BEIJING — It's a dog's life for three newborn tiger triplets in eastern China.

The cubs, whom officials at the Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shandong province are so far just calling "One," "Two" and "Three," have been nursed by a dog since they were rejected by their tiger mother shortly after birth, said Paomaling manager Chen Yucai.

The trio's adoptive mother, a mixed breed farm dog called "Huani," is expected to nurse them for about a month or until their appetites outpace her supply, Chen said.

Chen said it is common for Chinese zoos to use surrogate dog mothers to nurse rejected tiger cubs and that Huani has nursed tigers before.

In the past, Paomaling put dog urine on their rejected cub's fur to make the surrogate think she was nursing one of her own puppies but the zoo didn't bother with Huani because she seemed not to mind nursing the tigers, he said.

"The family is getting along well and seems to enjoy each other," Chen said.