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I don’t know what to say. Beware of teeth?
A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother, the Myanmar Times reported.
The two-week-old cubs, a male and a female, were taken from their mother Noah Noah after she killed the third cub in her litter, prompting veterinarians to engage in alternative childcare, the semi-official weekly reported in its edition to be published Monday.
Hla Htay, 40, a relative of a Yangon Zoological Gardens staffer and a mother of three including a seven-month-old baby, stepped in when she learned the cubs needed breast milk to survive.
“I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow,” she told the newspaper.
The cubs were the first born at the zoo for 16 years. Veterinarian Kyaw Myo Hlaing said they were being bottle-fed along with Hla Htay’s half-hour breastfeeding sessions four times a day, the report said.
The cubs are to go on public display in two month’s time.
Noah Noah and her mate were among two pairs of tigers sent from Thailand under an animal exchange program in 2001.
One year ago Myanmar’s military government created the world’s largest tiger reserve to protect its big cats, 250 of which remain in the wild.
Woman breastfeeds tiger cubs [news24]
um……..nope
wtf?!
not in a million fuckface years…
if it were me I’d pump. just to be on the safe side.
I would totally breastfeed tiger cubs. She’s producing yet another asian to the world. The world doesn’t need another asian, but it surely needs more tigers.
that is by far the most insulting thing i’ve heard all day. i’m so glad we’re all secure, spiritual, satisfied, intelligent, good people.
Who cares if she is Asian…its down right gross know matter who is doing it… WTF!!
What I don’t understand is this…why doesn’t this lady just express her milk and feed the tigers with a bottle? Shouldn’t the teet be reserved for your children only?
It was a matter of life or no life, but besides I remembered the case of Kine Skiaker in Norway, about three years ago.
She did exactly the same with a big litter of orphaned puppies defying the vet’s orders, and two days later when they were saved the puppies were put under the care of surrogate canine mothers.
And almost everyone cheered Skiaker for her decision of breastfeeding the dogs.
Is it just me or does that woman look a lot like scary Maggie Gylennthal???
Now just see this …
-1- “A Bolivian woman has saved an abandoned one-week-old puppy by breastfeeding it”.
-2- “One day my wife and I rescued an orphaned joey.
When my wife saw the kangaroo’s interest, she put him on the other tit”.
-3- “Woman Breastfeeds Endangered Monkey
The wife of an animal refuge worker has saved an infant golden monkey by breastfeeding it ( Japan Today )”.
… It’s where they, just as Namita Das, Kine Skiaker and now Hla Htay, think only of saving one or more lives, not how they should do it.