San Jose Dog Subs as Mom for Orphaned Kittens

NBC11 ^ | Wed, May 12, 2010 | Jessica Greene

[nickcarraway]

Fighting like cats and dogs? Not at a San Jose home, where a family is learning first-hand about the amazing way nature helps foster life.

The Cervantes family was raising a cat and a dog when their cat, which recently had a litter of kittens, was hit and killed by a car. That's when the dog took over.

Carlos Cervantes is at a loss for words over the apparent adoption. He says the dog isn't even pregnant but she's been nursing the kittens for the past few weeks.

"I'm not sure how to explain it." Cervantes said. "I'm pretty sure something about nature, where the dog felt like she had to take care of kittens."

[nickcarraway]

[WellyP]

Sweet yellow lab! Wonder if she will try and teach the kittens to swim?

[KevinDavis]

This kinda reminds me of an old Warner Brothers cartoon where a dog was taken car of a kitten..

[randomhero97]

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[Sunshine Sister]

Good puppy!

[Slings and Arrows]

[Slings and Arrows]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCS-Lj13bA

[nickcarraway]

Shot on location in San Jose.

[martin_fierro]

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[Wuli]

I witnessed one same such an event many years ago; with kittens from a mother cat that was killed by a car shortly after their birth; and their adopted “mother”, a really sweet “mutt” who was pregnant with a false pregancy at the time, and from which there actually were no pups who needed her milk

[siamesecats]

What a sweet dog.
Thanks for the ping!

[Slings and Arrows]

You’re welcome. I love interspecies adoptions.

[whinecountry]

Martin, your on-spot graphics never fail to amaze.

[NucSubs]

I KNEW it would be a Lab or Golden.

[MHGinTN]

When we brought two still nursing kittens home to Alabama from Tennessee decades ago, our miniature Schnauzer nursed the two kittens ... and she had not had puppies in years!