Posted on 12/03/2016 12:06:43 AM PST by nickcarraway
A dog in northern Germany is once again taking on the role of surrogate parent to a big cat, this time helping rear a pair of rejected Bengal tiger cubs.
Leon, a six-year old pointer mix, is helping his owner, zoo keeper Jeannette Wurms, raise one-month old Peach and Pearl at home after the cubs were rejected by their mother at Safaripark Stukenbrock near the town of Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock.
“What’s exceptional about (Leon) is that he is a male with such motherly instincts which are very marked,” Wurms, who hand feeds the cubs, said on Monday.
“He also acts as their entertainer and that’s certainly exceptional.”
Wurms said Leon previously helped raise a white lion in 2012.
The unusual adoption will not last long, though, with Wurms warning that the tigers can react with unexpected violence when they grow older.
"....he's a bloomin poofer isn't he....(mumblin) lopearedbuttsniffingbonedigger
It’s Germany... Where the President became ‘mother’ to uncounted Muslim refugees.
When my daughter was younger, her most interesting find at a mini-zoo was a bobcat kitten being “mothered” by a house cat, since the owners had found it and wanted to save it. The “baby” bobcat was now bigger than the housecat but still acting like the older one was Mom.
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