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 cub's, 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 weanling 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???
hmmmm ..maybe Scott.. 10 bucks says the Tigeress still takes down all your pork rolls when the fur starts to fly ... unless of course she chokes on one .
As always, someone has to come along to spoil the pretty picture
Hehehe ... just call me the Grinch!
On a serious note though, there are few things more deplorable to me than the maltreatment / exploitation of animals in certain cultures ... absolutely hideous!!!
On a serious note though, there are few things more deplorable to me than the maltreatment / exploitation of animals in certain cultures ... absolutely hideous!!!
Ok...Mr Grinch
I totally agree with you. It makes you wonder just what their true mentality really is...and if they treat animals like that, how would they treat people if they had the mind to.
I hope that snopes.com doesn't object to the breach of their copyright to the original materials including the pictures (I noticed the copyright notice right at the bottom of the page) and IIS instead gets into trouble!!
