Dog gives birth to kitten (uh huh, sounds like National Enquirer, or some tabloid)
Dog gives birth to kitten
August 30, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...?oneclick=true
People have flocked to a small village on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital
after a man claimed that his ten-year-old pet dog has defied nature and the
ancient tradition of her species reviling cats and given birth to a kitten.
Owner Te Huot told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that his dog, called Knou, gave
birth to a grey tabby kitten after he was visited by a forest monk who claimed
that the dog had mated with a tiger.
He said it was only the second time in the dog's life that she had given
birth, and that the first time, five years earlier, she had produced normal
canine puppies.
However, he claimed that last Tuesday, Knou went into labour at his Chhbar
Ampou village home and produced a single kitten.
The phenomenon has brought crowds thronging to Te Huot's home to burn incense
and give donations towards the dog and its tiny kitten, which Te Huot says is
a sign from the gods.
"This animal cries like a cat, and its face is like a cat, but its feet are
bigger than a cat's and look more like a dog's feet," local media quoted Te
Huot as saying.
However, one visitor on Friday was less than impressed.
"It is a kitten," the man told DPA. "I only went to see what it looked like,
but when the owner told me I had to pray to the dog, I left. I don't believe
him that this kitten came from his dog."
Animal husbandry experts also cast doubts on the ability of a dog to give
birth to a cat, but sheer curiosity value still saw hundreds of Cambodians
mobbing the bemused new canine mother in a rush to witness the alleged strange
birth for themselves.
