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Posted on 04/04/2005 5:22:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their aggressive mother.
Hla Htay, 40, who has three children, the youngest seven months old, offered her services after the Bengal tiger cubs' mother, Noah Noah, killed the third member of her litter.
The two others, a male and a female, were taken from her and now receive bottle feeds as well as Hla Htay's milk four times a day.
"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow," she told the Myanmar Times, a privately-owned English-language paper in the capital.
The cubs were born at the Rangoon zoo a fortnight ago, the first there for 16 years. The Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris, is listed as endangered on the World Conservation Union's red list, with the global population estimated at fewer than 2,500.
A tenth of them live in Burma, where they are under threat from poachers seeking to feed markets for traditional medicines and trophies.
Big cat skins are easily obtained at markets on the Thai-Burmese border, with snow leopards the most commonly available. Dealers say that tiger parts are becoming more expensive and hard to obtain because of their dwindling supply.
Noah Noah and her mate were one of two pairs of tigers sent to the zoo from Thailand four years ago as part of an animal exchange.
I had the same thought!
Of the woman's breasts, the tiger cubs reportedly cheered,“They're grrrrrrrrrreat!”
LOL!
This is just wrong. Is there any reason why she couldn't use a breast pump and then a bottle? SICK.
Awright B! I knew you'd show up for this "titillating" thread! Can we get it hijacked??? Please???
This is the kind of thread you hijack *to*...not *from*. :o)
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Jealous? ;o)
Well, a gentleman is always ready to assist a lady in need.
BTW, isn't this sort of how Rome was founded? Yea, different animal and all, but there is precedent, at least.
Yeah, and look how Rome ended up?
Churning out bucket loads of celibate men! Ha! ;-)
Ya think they may carry some of the same genes?
I saw that thread. Your comment is perfect.
I'm so without words....
Dang. I saw your website (breederville.com) and was about to volunteer....as the Church Lady would say, "Never mind."
Thag--you're it!
I've been there a couple times. Not a whole lotta celibacy going on, from what I saw. Can't blame 'em, with all the good-looking Italian babes.
Okay, Irish women are babes, too.
They're adorable but I'd stick to bottlefeeding them. I remember when my Lab was a baby - her teeth were like needles pretty early on. No way would teeth like those get anywhere near "the girls" :lol: .
LQ
LOL
"Thaaanks...forrr...the mammaries..."
Rowr!!
Oh man....you guys are KILLIN' me tonight! I'm just glad Mrs. Thag is not here...hard to explain why there's red wine on the monitor...again....3rd time this week and it's only MONDAY!!!! What are we gonna be like by OSTF time????
Apropos.
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There's a job waiting for this woman at a certain Northern California gorilla research outfit.