Your daily awwww!

[slobone]

My stepsister sent me these pics and I thought I'd share them with y'all. Here's the text that went with them:

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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 weaner 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....

[justsimon]

Awwww. But do they really think she's fooled by the tiger jackets?

[slobone]

I was wondering that myself. But they certainly add to the adorable-osity.

By the way, can anybody tell me how to include full size pix instead of just thumbnails in a post? I notice a lot of people are doing it, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. You can PM me with that one.






Instructions provided by PM -- T-Zero

[elvin1]

LOL...That was cute. So the tiger really was fooled?

[pills]

She's not fooled. She's just waiting until they get a little bigger...hehe.

[JohnnyAngel]

What happens when they outgrow their little tiger suits and she sees the piglets without the suits...? Will she still love them or will she think they're strange animals out to harm her babies...? Will she be cleaning them with her tongue one morning, and then all of sudden, starts tasting bacon...?

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[demsducks]

Very cute! Definitely made me go AWWWW.

[blooeyz]

Looks like several little snacks

[ahotjock71]

Kitty likes pork chops......

[Guest]

gggggreaaaatttttttttttt story!

[davy]

Looks like several little snacks

individually wrapped snacks.

[douseiai]

i went awww i wanna calender of of that... its so cute...

[Jordan_White]

And when the piglets find out that the tiger wasn't their real mother, they'll be on Maury Povich!

[cocktales]

I did NOT expect baby pigs as subs for her babies!!

Man, this lends a whole new thingy about "Piggies n a blanket (err tiger skin)!!! lol

I think this is about the Kutest, greatest thing to help boost Mama Tiger's feelings about losing her babies.....

Nothing beats Mother-hood/Father-hood!!!

[Chance1826]

That is so sweet!

I wish them the best...

[Kulindahr]

So what happens when she has another litter, and the new ones don't look like pigs-in-a-blanket? Will she reject the real thing?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[NedNickerson]

Am I the only one here who wonders where they got the tiger skins...?

I hope they didn't skin her poor deceased cubs...

[The_Reaper]

That was a great awwwwwwwwww.....

[D-Base]

Aww, they have tiger coats How cute is that

[buzzj]

She's not fooled. She's just waiting until they get a little bigger...hehe.

That thought certainly diminishes the awww! factor!

[buzzj]

Aww, they have tiger coats How cute is that

Just wait 'til PETA gets wind of that!!

[DANNO]

that is the sweetest thing ever!

[ComNavFdgPk]

...Will she be cleaning them with her tongue one morning, and then all of sudden, starts tasting bacon...?

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[TylerKS]

OMG its so damn cute!

Awwwwwwwwww

[turtle_5731]

I’m sure that eventually they will take the piglets away, when the "mother" is doing better and won’t have any problems with depression when the "cubs" aren't there anymore.

[marcde]

Am I the only one here who wonders where they got the tiger skins...?

I hope they didn't skin her poor deceased cubs...

Really cute pictures but I couldn't help but think the same as Ned Nickerson - they must have skinned the dead cubs so that the mother would recognise the smell - otherwise she would be munching on pork scratchings.

[SpankThePony]

Very cute.
Reminds me of the wild lioness that lost her pride and spontaneously started adopting oryxes.

I'm sure she wont eat the piglets
Not untill they put on a little more weight anyway.

[Lube]

I thought something seemed fishy in Denmark, er Thailand.