T: Is for Try a Little Tenderness!

In California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs in a zoo. 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 cub s 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 weanling 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??
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Now, please tell me why can't the rest of the world get along? Tomorrow I am about to write about the opposite of tenderness. There are horrors going on in this world that deify humanity. I send out a warning now that the pictures tomorrow are graphic and are uncomfortably cruel. How ironic that I was sent these pictures of unconditional love shown here as a contrast. This is not the first story I have heard of animals giving selflessly in order for the whole to survive. The story of Owen and Mzee, is about an orphaned baby hippopotamus and the 130-year-old giant tortoise who rescued and adopted her. The animal kingdom can teach us a few lessons and that is a F.A.C.T.