CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. - A pug puppy rejected by his mother has found a new, more welcoming family — a cat and her three kittens.
Kelly Kent, of Connellsville, said her 2-year-old cat, Zoey, has been nursing a black pug puppy since he was rejected by his mother in late March. Zoey doesn't usually like dogs but seems to have made an exception, Kent said.
The puppy, who belongs to Kent's neighbor, is about the same size as Zoey's kittens and regularly lines up for milk with his adopted feline siblings.
It is not unusual for mothers to adopt in nature, even if the baby is of another species, said William Shepherd, a Uniontown veterinarian. Shepherd said a puppy can drink a cat's milk, but warned that Zoey might not be able to produce enough as the young pug gets older and bigger.
The pug puppy, the runt of his litter, doesn't yet have a name.
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being the mother of a kitten that I bottle fed......this really hit my heart.
I had to...it was abandond in the parking place where I worked. cowarkers said..take it to spca..I said, give it to me. ( it becasue no one could tell the gender of it at the time, it was 3 to 4 days old, and eyes closed.) My mom saw the first time that day and thought it was a gerbal.......theres a clue about the size, that was a thursday- that saturday I got him to the vet...and they could tell and they weight him...4.4 OUNCES.
i bottle fed munchkin, hince the name stuck........and he is my baby baby.
he also , funny enough was fed by my "stray" the next day while I was at work. I am moma. and he was a bottle fed boy. (funny he still lies to drink my stuff out of my glass.......)
That is so sweet. Mine were left at the vet's for euthanasia when I was a tech, and the vet said it was okay to try to raise them. It was a litter of 5 and I lost 2. I still get a little teary when I think about the two I lost.
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