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A baby pig abandoned by her mother has found a new home after being adopted... by a Rottweiler. The little piggy called Apple Sauce faced starving when she was rejected by her mum as the runt of a litter of 13.  But animal lover Heidi Rhiann hoped her pet Rottweiler Sasha might help after having eight puppies of her own.   Ham-azing friendship: Apple Sauce the piglet sleeps with a litter of Rottweiler pups after she was abandoned by her mother at birth The family were delighted when the piglet was accepted by Sasha - and became piggy in...

Did somebody say lunch?             By RICHARD MORIARTY Published: Today     THIS hungry polar bear didn't need a second invitation to pop in for lunch after smelling it being prepared on a tourist ship in the Arctic. The beast stuck its head through the porthole after smelling cauliflower soup being heated up as the boat stopped at an ice flow close to the island of Svalbard, midway between Norway and the North Pole.   Close encounter ... tourists get a rare close-up with a polar bear  Luckily wildlife photographer Andy Rouse was one of 12...

  Koda, the smallest horse in Australia, is smaller than most dogs and not much bigger than a cat   He weighs only 35 kg (five-and-a-half stone) and stands at 59cm (less than two feet tall)   American miniature Koda was never going to be large, but he's small even for his breed...   ...and was diagnosed a dwarf soon after his birth   In fact, he's so small, people are often mistaking him for a battery-operated soft toy

Goat, Baby Rhino Make Odd Couple Rhino's Mother Killed By Poachers   POSTED: 7:15 am CST March 2, 2005 UPDATED: 7:19 am CST March 2, 2005  KRUGERSDORP, South Africa -- An adult goat at a nature preserve has adopted a baby rhinoceros whose mother was killed by poachers. FeedRoom [AD] Goat Adopts Baby Rhino     Keepers at the preserve, which is 30 minutes northwest of Johannesburg, said that when the baby rhino arrived, he was lost until he spied a goat through the fence on a neighboring farm.   The goat came up to the rhino and they...

(edit)Keeping their 200lb frames afloat takes quite a bit of effort, which is why their handlers join them in the water to keep a close eye on their progress. (edit) 'Tigers have a natural desire and ability to swim,' said Dr Bhagavan Antle, who set up the tiger pool at his animal park in South Carolina.  'It is rarely seen and we wanted to be able to present it to people so they could really get the feel of that incredible beauty and grace that a tiger has in the water.  'Tigers have modified webbing between their toes that makes their...

The new pygmy hedgehogs you can keep like a pet hamsterLast updated at 18:04pm on 15th April 2008  They are small and prickly and are the very latest must-have pets.   Would-be owners are will happily wait up to a year and will travel any distance to get their hands on an African pygmy hedgehog. The cute pets are a quarter of the size of a normal hedgehog and are fully domesticated and don't carry diseases or fleas. They love being handled and rarely curl up in a defensive ball. The animals were first bred in captivity less than 10...

Abandoned baby polar bear is 'better off dead' than raised in zooLast updated at 18:04pm on 19th March 2007The Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but animal rights activists insisted he would be better off dead than raised by humans. When Knut was born last December his mother ignored him, zoo officials intervened and chose to raise him themselves "Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht told the mass-circulation Bild, which has featured regular full-color photo...

Baby tiger's birth adds to rare species   Last Edited: Friday, 09 Mar 2007, 7:41 PM EST Created: Friday, 09 Mar 2007, 6:54 PM EST     A rare tabby tiger has been born in Polk County. Related Items Videos DAVENPORT - Sounds of life fill the air at Horseshoe Creek Wildlife Foundation.  Spring is dawning, and that means babies being born.All the births are a joy for Horseshoe Creek founder Darryl Atkinson. "It's like being a father all over again.  I can't explain -- they are my children," Atkinson said.   He is especially thrilled by the recent birth...

First video (same as post link) Home comforts for rare white tiger cub Reuters.com Jan. 28 - A rare white tiger cub is being raised in a German home until he is big enough to join other large cats in a safari park.There are about 250 white tigers living in captivity -- 80 of them are owned by the German entertainers Siegfried and Roy in Los Angeles. When he's old enough, Pipo will live at the Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen. Tom Metcalfe reports. Video: Rare white tiger cub lives in German home ***************************************************Second Video: Reuters QuickCut Kiss me, I'm cute...

Washington D.C. Zoo Shows Off Three Sumatran Tiger Cubs Sunday, September 03, 2006 WASHINGTON — The introduced three to the public Saturday, more than three months after they were born.The cubs, two female and one male, had been kept inside since their May 24 birth to bond with their mother. In the last few days, the cubs were introduced to the outdoors to make sure that they could safely get around.<<<snip>>>  AP Sept. 3: Two of three Sumatran tiger cubs born at the National Zoo make their debut. AP Sept. 3: Maharani, one of three Sumatran tiger cubs born at the...