Dogs nurse panda bears!!!
A pup nursing the red panda cubs!!
In China a rare thing has happened. A red panda gave birth to two cubs late in June. That isn’t the rare fact. There were some problems. The cubs who were born in a northern Chinese zoo and zoo officials did not even know that the mom red panda was pregnant. The cubs, born in captivity were quickly abandoned by their mother. Vets at the zoo were concerned about how the cubs were going to survive and scrambled to find a wet nurse for the cubs. The dog wet nurse was found at a nearby farm, still nursing one of her own pups. However, it didn’t take her long to treat the cubs like two of her own…in fact, the dog at times would neglect her own pup and favor the cubs.
Three weeks have passed since the cubs have been born, and even though the cubs have not opened their eyes yet, they have doubled in size and are almost 8 inches long. It isn’t known how long the dog will nurse the cubs, but probably long enough for the cubs to thrive and live on their own.
While these bears are related to the well known black and white pandas, they don’t grow any where near the size of the pandas. In fact these bears resemble racoons with a lot of hair and very bushy tails. It is not known if the cubs will remain in the zoo or be put in the wild, but since they have a home already at the zoo, it is assumed that the zoo officials would want these saved cubs to stay as one of their newest attractions
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