She named her right breast "Siegfried".
Posted on 05/12/2005 6:48:43 AM PDT by LwinAungSoe
Two Bengal tiger cubs breastfed for weeks by a Rangoon housewife have died of heat and dehydration, a Burma newspaper reported today.
The black-striped, orange-brown cubs drew worldwide attention when Hla Htay, a mother of a baby boy, answered a plea for help from Rangoon's zoo and fed the cats three times a day after they were rejected by their tigress mother.
But the cubs -- a male and female born on March 17 -- did not take well to human milk and they grew weaker as temperatures soared in the hot season.
The male died on May 3, six days after his sister perished.
"The main causes of death were scorching weather and lack of milk from the natural mother," Dr Khin Maung Win of the Rangoon Zoological Garden told the Burma-language Interview Journal.
"We did all we could to save them. They were kept in an air-conditioned room, but their livers could not accept human milk," he said.
Three cubs were born at the zoo, but their mother killed one and refused to nurse the others.
After bottle feeding failed, the zoo put out a call for breastfeeding mothers.
Sad.
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Maybe they should have been formula fed.
Maybe they had well-developed speech centers in their brains when they died, tho. hahahah. If cow's milk develops strong leg bones (for cows) and human's milk develops great brains, then ....
I don't know a thing about formula feeding animals but I believe it has to have been done successfully in some zoo before now. As for the old cow milk is not good for human babies argument, baby formula is based on cow milk but there is more to it than just that and I know for a fact that bottle fed human babies do just fine as a rule so why wouldn't baby tigers do ok on a milk formula made for them?
I'm thinking maybe the idea of formula fed tigers was just too radical for the "boob feeding is the ONLY way" mindset among the brainwashed masses. If that is the case these tiger cubs are just 2 more casualties of political correctness and that should be a crime.
I thot the article said the cubs would not drink the formula. I think 3x day nursing is not nearly enough for baby cubs. Baby humans nurse all day long.
All day long? Are you kidding me? Maybe that's because many human babies never get enough milk via breastfeeding. It sounds as though they didn't know how much (or how little) these tiger cubs actually consumed either.
She named her right breast "Siegfried".
Tiger,tiger, burning bright.
Dang, poor lil tigers.
Nope. We have one that's not quite 3 weeks off the showroom floor that's attached to my wife like a hungry tick whenever she's not sleeping. I told my wife it would have been easier just to leave the umbilical cord attached and carry her around as needed.
Yes, mine both breastfed about once every two hours. They ate a lot each time, too. Both were enormous children, nine-and-a-half pounds at birth.
Oh thank goodness I bottle fed.My breasts couldn't handle that much attention. OUCH!
Yup, attached like a tick. That's what I remember too. Their stomachs are the size of their fists, don't forget. Fills and empties pretty fast, and they are growing by leaps and bounds.
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