8/11/2006: Papillon dog adopts, nurses injured baby squirrel
 

http://cellar.org/2006/dognursessquirrel.jpg

Another via Neatorama.

1... 2... 3... Awwwwwwww!

That's Finnegan the squirrel, who was found injured and malnourished when he was only a few days old. He'd fallen 40 feet out of a tree. He only lived because he fell on top of his sister, who was also falling, and who died. Finnegan was in bad shape. He was brought to one Debby Cantlon, who had a reputation for taking in sick and injured animals.

And that's when Mademoiselle Giselle the Papillon took over. (OK, we'll excuse the cutesy-pie dog name.) M'elle Giselle was pregnant, bedding on the other side of the house, but somehow took a liking to the squirrel. She dragged Finnegan's cage across the house, so it could be next to her own doggie bed. And when Cantlon moved the cage back, M'elle just did it again.

So Cantlon let them hang out together.

http://cellar.org/2006/squirrel-dog4.jpg

And after M'elle Giselle gave birth to her pups, she let Finnegan in to nurse as one of her own.

http://cellar.org/2006/squirrel-dog8.jpg

Actually N-rama points to this page of crazy animal adoptions (which in turn points to this gallery of the Finnigan/Giselle paring). There are eight other animal adoptions on that crazy adoptions page. IotD Friday has already covered most of them. This dog and ducklings I hadn't seen before:

http://cellar.org/2006/dog_ducklings.jpg

The cat and crow video on the adoptions page is fun.

Happy Friday all!

I am now officially diabetic.

The pictures are awfully sweet.

Well, it does really fit her custie-pie face! :rotflol:

Uh... that crow is not trying to adopt that cat. It's a baby crow. You can tell by the pink in his beak and the sound of his call. He's trying to be "adopted" by the cat... the part where he's biting the cat's foot is how baby crows feed from their parents beaks.

Are those ducklings *nursing*?! What the hell is that all about? They aren't mammals.:worried:

The ones at her breast are the males.:lol:

I have a few more pics of adoptions. Here is a dog (in Russia as I recall) foster mother to orphaned lion AND tiger cubs, and cat foster mother to ferrets.

...and a German shepherd mother to tiger cubs, and a dog nursing piglets. Being from a mixed family myself, I approve.

I can't remember if this picture came from this site or not...I've been finding so many great pics around lately, my hard drive better not crash! Well, I do love this picture wherever I got it!

TGIF!!!

Why would a dog let a fuzzy-tailed rat nears her pups?
Oh, of course.....Mademoiselle Giselle the Papillon....french bitch. :smack:

French hospitality ! ;)

You're from a mixed species family? Egad. :)

I've raised orphaned kitties and puppies completely by hand. Bottle-feeding, making them go potty, cleaning little dirty eye-boogers, etc.

Soon, my first human baby will arrive. I wonder if my experience will count for anything?