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Wot a treat!
C.O. is linked from USA Today today.
Like all good news outlets, they have an interspecies snorgling feature on this pup NURSING TIGER TRIPLETS (with her own junior pup on the right, there.) With those tiny tiger appetites, you gotta watch out, Girl!
Thanks for the menshons, Mike C.!
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OMG SO Cute
Bleen
Oh my goodness. Cute, but ... how is that possible? Any scientists/biologists/zookeepers in the house?
aaw! watch out doggy!
woo! congrats!
Awwwww puppies... we're not equipped to foster canines, but if we... wait a minute.
: : : T H P O I T T T : : :
i lofs it!!!
must snorgle kittehs
and puppeh
Go Huani (the dog)! That is teh awesome. But is that...three flavors of tiger?
Ditto warrior rabbit re: flavors. No mention in the story why they are all different colors. The one next to the puppy is my favorite. He looks like a snow leopard.
Marglesnorgle,
Dogs are very common foster parents (both females and males). Something in their programing makes them welcome all babies, not just puppies. Which is good for us. w00t!
"When I like something, I buy one in every color!"
OMG!! Three different colored tigerettes??!? HOW CUTE!!
I read this surrogate dog has nursed other abandoned tigerettes before, so she's a pro at this.
CUTE!!!!!
Oh sure, they're happy now, but those cubs will grow up and they won't call, they won't write....
I saw this today! :) Prompted a discussion about why the Chinese would name 3 tiggerlets "One", "Two", and "Three" - why do pandaz get all the good names?
the silver one is all "paws up"!
i have never seen anything like that before. How is that even possible
The mom's looking at the babeh kittehs thinking, "Wait, did I give birth to *those*? What the--?"
Past couple of weeks have proved rather... eventful (in the most generous usage of the word), so this site is wonderful for my state of mind. Props to the CO staff - and to the mum-dog and her adopted fluffballs, of course :)
this dog has a perfect look on her face; "Ok, sure, I'll nurse you guys... just watch the teeth, for the love of god..."
Nusty Koo Koo? NUSTY KOO KOO?? I don't know what it is, but I love it.
"OK, kids, keep your fangs to yourself..." Way past cute!
Is it normal to have such a variety of cubbage from one mother? Maybe kind of in vitro going on?
What a generous dog! I wonder what happens in a month when the cub's appetites outstrip the supply, as the article suggests will happen. More dog-moms?
Is it normal to have such a variety of cubbage from one mother? Maybe kind of in vitro going on?
What a generous dog! I wonder what happens in a month when the cub's appetites outstrip the supply, as the article suggests will happen. More dog-moms?
Sorry for the dubbbbble post. Also--just noticed the peeps counter. Hello, my 526 friends...
So precious! I was just on the phone with my Dad, and he was telling me about this...I should have known CO would be featuring it!
On a side note, my Dad once petted a full-grown female Siberian Tiger. :-O
I was just about to submit that article!
dear lord, this has killed me. if there was video of the cubbers romping with the pup, it would be too strong and many deaths would ensue. (is there video? i need to see this)
I have pics from last year of my then 25-yr-old daughter petting and tummy rubbing a "tame" adult Siberian tiger in Thailand--in a pen with three other "tame" adult tigers scattered around. I freaked that she did it. The pics are cool to have, and I even had the belly-rub one put on a mug, but there is no such thing as a tame tiger--and especially no such thing as four "tame" tigers.
Last year, a 17-year-old girl in Kansas was killed by the "tame" Siberian tiger that a high school senior class was having their individual senior pics taken with. That is exactly what I thought of when my daughter told me of her little adventure.
And the tiger showman Roy's tiger didn't even mean to hurt him--just to protect him--but nearly killed him.
Even one of my dear, sweet, precious kittehs will leave me bleeding if one happens to get startled while on my shoulder, so that she pushes off suddenly with her claws. Obviously, even without meaning harm, a tiger could kill someone if something startles it!
And yet the pics are pretty darned cool--now that she is no longer in that pen rubbing huge tiger bellies! In fact, I have cosndiered submitting one to CO, since the tiger is all paws up belly exposure and looking darned cuddlecute.
I want to nibble their ears and see if the different color kittehs (and pup) taste differently!! Neopolitan Kittehs!!!!!!!
OMG!!1! Tigers!!1!
Rulio Iglesias!1!1
There was a show on Animal Planet a couple of years ago, called The Awesome Pawsome, about four tiger cubs, and they were mixed like these. One white, and three varied oranges.
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
3 different coloured tigerlets! One little puppy! One awesome momma dog!
Awwwwwwwwww.
Tiger Pups! I luvs 'em!
Thanks, AuntieM, for reminding me of the title of that documentary. "The Awesome Pawsome". Right. It was too cool. And they definitely came in different flavors in the same litter.
Theo's kittens are different colours too, even though they're from the same mom. I think cats can carry kittens from different father cats in the same litter, so perhaps tigers can also do that.
:) Truly beautiful!!
:)
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Congradulations...
I followed the link through to the USA Today site and was glad to see a referral back to your site! Awesome! The Webby's and now this!
Chocolate, vanilla, and orange flavor tiger-lettes! I wonder if the "spigots" come in different flavors too! ;-)
Very sweet photo. Ain't nature awesome!?
Not to be a Nuff or nuffin'... but can tiger cubs live on dog's milk? I mean, every mammalian species has different nutritional requirements, and a human baby can't live on cow's milk without a lot of supplements. So I always wonder when I see a mom of one species nursing babies of a different species.
No matter what, though, those tigerettes are *beautiful*.
Are the tigers from three different mums.....or three different dads? ;) Very cute....
seems like the pup stopped nursing for a sec, is looking to his/her left and saying, "wtf?!"
Okay, this dog really deserves a nice big steak...
Beyond precious! I have heard of dogs nursing just about everything from squirrels to cows. Their milk must me "perfect" for inter-species feeding. All of the babies take your breath away...must steal kissies....
Hi, this is Mike from USA TODAY's On Deadline blog. Based on what we've read about this dog, it's actually quite common for Chinese zoos to use dogs as surrogate mothers for orphaned tigers and other animals. Who knew?
i think that is so quit
I so love the cub in the middle!! All white with just a few stripes on the very very end of the tail! How sweet is that!
I bet the black and white one is makin' biscuits.
It's just MAJOR cool to get a link in USA Today! Teh Cute Roolz!
i love how she has one of each flavor!
Here in D.C., Express (a free tabloid published by the Washington Post and handed out at metro stations in the morning) ran this picture, too. The headline? Cuteness Overload. (I'm betting they would have gone with Cute Overload, but the space was too big.)
OK, somebody much earlier in the comments alluded to the fact that if dogs could foster nurse tigers, why couldn't people...I remember a photo from Nat'l Geographic of a Malaysian (?) woman nursing a piglet...apparently quite common...Not that I'd want to volunteer to nurse any baby mammals except my own, but woah...the possibilities...