Tiger Story

Leon · #1 07-24-2006, 07:54 PM

This has been forwarded to me:

Tiger story

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, 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 wiener pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.

crispy · #2 07-24-2006, 11:16 PM

Those were heartwarming pictures. I hope the tiger came out of her depression. I wonder if the piglets ever got to take the tiger skins off?

Erica · #3 07-25-2006, 02:25 AM

What a sad story... But it sure did make for some cute pictures. I hope it helped mommy tiger.

Erica

Yme2 · #4 07-25-2006, 02:29 AM

Wow what a good mom I wish there was a way we could find out how it all turned out....

Mommyof4 · #5 07-25-2006, 08:02 AM

I received the same email. I thought it was just the cutest thing ever!!

Ronni · #6 08-07-2006, 08:01 PM

This is a beautiful story and pictures! Momma sure is proud of her babies.

My little shitzu nursed 2 baby orphan kittens one time. Some people said that's not natural but it saved both the kittens. It's a natural instinct for any momma no matter what animal they are.

Ronni

auntietonka · #7 10-14-2006, 08:04 PM

Those are cute pictures!

KittyTyme · #8 11-27-2006, 08:47 PM

I got that email also.. I did a little investigating.. here's what I found..

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/tiger-piglets.html

Mommyof4 · #9 11-27-2006, 11:15 PM

This is the cutest story of the year! It just goes to show that if Pigs and Tigers can get along ... So can all People ... if only the world worked that way!