Happy Mother's Day! To my Mom who showed me the way and to my kids who make every day a grand adventure. It's a great Mother's Day. Nonabella and Colin made little presents at school and daycare. The best Mother's Day present of all was when Colin climbed on my lap and gave me an extra long cuddle!
I think you all will enjoy this. Thanks to my cousin Connie for sending it to me!
In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately,due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??
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I am so anxious to see Nonabella and Colin and of course YOU, it will be a pleasure to have Chris here.
When I saw the Mother's Day card and read what you wrote, it made me cry...you really don't realize
the day to day thing....sometimes it seems so insignicant....but it is so important in your life and your children's lives. Those are wonderful memories.
I love you very much.
Love, Mother
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