I think this was the mom tiger who lost her litter and was showing signs of depression so they put the clothe over piggies and she winded up taking care of them.
Sounds right. As unpredictable as wild carnivores are, sometimes they have favorites that are immune to the normal kill-anything-you-can-and-eat-it mentality. That’s how you hear stories of some random bloke who keeps a crocodile/tiger/wolf in his home and doesn’t end up being eaten (unless he does, remember that story where the chimp ripped her owner’s friend’s face off? yikes!).
Anyway, yeah. The tiger got acculturated to treating the pigs like baby tigers. pretty likely that they’ll just hang around with her for however long pigs live (but risk that 10% chance that she’ll not tune in one morning and instinctually eat them).
Most cats are pretty good about being a mom to anything. Domestic and feral cats will form groups (if there are enough of them) and the mom cats will allow any kitten to nurse. This way most can go out and hunt, knowing the kittens are cared for and protected, mostly from male cats w/in the group.
OH MY GOD. THE CUTE. IT’S SLOWLY RAPING ME IN THE BRAIN
Stop playing with your food!
I couldn’t help it, I let out a giant “Awwww!”.
That’ll do, Tony. That’ll do.
I think this was the mom tiger who lost her litter and was showing signs of depression so they put the clothe over piggies and she winded up taking care of them.
Sounds right. As unpredictable as wild carnivores are, sometimes they have favorites that are immune to the normal kill-anything-you-can-and-eat-it mentality. That’s how you hear stories of some random bloke who keeps a crocodile/tiger/wolf in his home and doesn’t end up being eaten (unless he does, remember that story where the chimp ripped her owner’s friend’s face off? yikes!).
Anyway, yeah. The tiger got acculturated to treating the pigs like baby tigers. pretty likely that they’ll just hang around with her for however long pigs live (but risk that 10% chance that she’ll not tune in one morning and instinctually eat them).
That’s pretty much the deal I have with my cats
Most cats are pretty good about being a mom to anything. Domestic and feral cats will form groups (if there are enough of them) and the mom cats will allow any kitten to nurse. This way most can go out and hunt, knowing the kittens are cared for and protected, mostly from male cats w/in the group.
This looks shooped. I can tell from some of the lazors and from shooping quite a few woops in my time.
I think the story is that the tiger lost her baby tigers and was depressed so the zoo owners cheered her up with the piglets.