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Dog With Strong Mothering Urge Starts Nursing Stray Kittens

By The Associated Press
(11/24/04 - EDWARDSBURG, MI) — A Shih Tzu who, her owners say, longed for years to give birth is finally getting a chance to nurse some little ones, even if they're the wrong species.

Owners Jean and Bill Schirf said the dog, named Geisha Girl, used to take a toy dog, wrap herself around it in her basket and mother it for a week or two. Now she's doing the same thing with two stray kittens that Jean Schirf found two weeks ago in the woods behind her Cass County home. "She wraps herself around them all night long," Schirf said. Not only did Geisha Girl start watching over and cleaning the kittens, which have been named Dilly and Dally, she started lactating within about a week -- enough to provide them with some of the milk they need. Schirf helps out by bottle-feeding the cats 2 percent milk. (Copyright 2004 by

The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

pacifierrocks

aww that's so cute. i've heard of things like this before. i think its just so awesome.

haylz80

That is so cute. You usually hear about things like that happening where the dog already has babies of it's own and it nurses anything else as well, but the fact that dog was longing to mother something and gladly took on the stray kittens is beyond cute.

I love overly maternal animals. One of our cats is crazy neurotic over babies. She has her own, but will happily steal others from our other cats if they also have kittens.
When my brother was a baby, the cat had kittens, and my mother was changing my brother's nappy (which he hated) on a blanket and he was screaming his little head off. The cat came running from her basket of kittens and and tried to drag my brother off into her basket by biting his collar and pulling.

She didn't get far, because he was too heavy, but it was extremely amusing to watch.

Messed Up Girl

That's so cute!