How very bizzare! But I guess she's saving lives

[QueenScoopalot]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-04-22T130521Z_01_BKK87166_RTRIDST_0_ODD-MYANMAR-TIGER-DC.XML
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YANGON (Reuters) - Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days -- a seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal tiger cubs.

Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother.

"The cubs are just like my babies," Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby big cats suckled her breast.

"It's not scary at all," she said of the 45-minute feeds. "I needed to do something for the cubs because I felt really sorry for them."

Three cubs were born at the zoo in mid-March, but their mother killed one and refused to nurse the others. Veterinarians rescued the other two but had little success bottle feeding them.

"They had some difficulties sucking the nipple on the bottle. When we tried to get the cubs to suck a lady's breast, it was alright," said a veterinarian.

The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething -- whichever comes first.

[finn's mom]

I guess.

[IRescue452]

Well, that takes courage, not to mention a lack of self-consciousness.

[moosmom]

The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething -- whichever comes first.

I certainly hope so!!!!

[QueenScoopalot]

The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething -- whichever comes first.
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Or maybe before she loses both nipples! :eek: :eek: :eek: :D I've heard of dogs adopting orphaned big cats before, but this has to be a first hearing about a human doing so in such a manner. :confused:

[Sirrahsim]

As a woman just weeks away from breastfeeding my own baby....
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:
is all I have to say..

[CagneyDog]

Ummmmm. Thats different :rolleyes: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[ramanth]

I'm just surprised that human 'mothers' milk is okay for a feline to consume. I would think they would need something with the right nutrients. But if the vets say it's okay...

[jackie]

that is crazy. :eek:

[CathyBogart]

Wow! I hope human milk is rich enough for the little kitties.

[Pit Chick]

There wasn't a nursing mother dog anywhere in Htay?

[king2005]

Yummy..

I recall a lady, doing the same thing with a pitt bull. I forget where I heard/read if from. I just remember it being called wrong & I cannot remember if something happened to the lady or not, or if the dog was taken away.

[rizzy]

I think that is pretty crazy!:eek::rolleyes::eek: Some people.

[LaRana]

That's just gross. If she really wants to give the cubs the nutrients, she could use a breast pump and find an alternative to the bottle she was trying to feed them that they rejected. There's breast shaped bottles sold out there that ebb & flow.

http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/adi/adi42443.html?aff=frog

[Orca]

I guess that cool - she's helping the tigers. And when the tiger's start teething, she can get free nipple piercings :rolleyes:

[QueenScoopalot]

Originally posted by Orca
I guess that cool - she's helping the tigers. And when the tiger's start teething, she can get free nipple piercings :rolleyes:
I'm not sure she'll have any nipples left to pierce! :eek: ;) :rolleyes: