Mother of the Year?

In honor of Mother's Day, just past, and my newly impending status as the mother of more than one, I share with you this story. I just love this one. So cute.

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, 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 vets 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, there were no tiger cubs available. The vets decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo before. The only orphans that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner 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??

Take a look........