Pork chops or cubs? Must read

[Kristina]

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 weaning 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...you won't believe your eyes...

See the rest of the pictures at http://stories-etc.com/porkchops.htm#.TgTylt8QoWM.email

 

[dmmj]

Very nice, I wonder what will happen when she finds they are acutally pigs?

 

[Kristina]

You know, I was thinking that. Like, what happens when she tries to teach them to hunt? lol

 

[dmmj]

Actually I am more worried that the zookeepers will come in and see a bunch of dead pigs. Just saying she is still a tiger when the "happiness" of feeding wears off, will she try and eat them?

 

[Kristina]

Hopefully they will be intelligent enough to wean them before that happens.

 

[October]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp

 

[Jacqui]

David, once she has accepted them, then I think she will forever see them as her cubs. She will know them by their smell. I would bet even as adults if you placed one of her "cubs" in with her and then also placed an unknown but similar in size and looks pig, the new pig could become pork chops, but her own will stay safe.

I believe I saw this or atleast one like it a couple of years back. I am sure you could find out what happened. No doubt once the pigs were of no use (weaned off the mother) they were taken away. I would guess they only kept them together for a few weeks, just long enough for the tiger to become stable again.