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NOTE from the unfailingly gullible Tracy: :redface: :redface: I was just told (thanks Marion :hug: ) that this story isn't quite true, although the pictures are. I'm going to leave this thread on anyway because the pics are still neat. Read a bit further in the posts for the rest of the story.............
My sister sent this to me this morning and I wanted to share it with my TT friends. :hug: :hug: NEAT!!! 
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, 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 wiener pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets
in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger~~~~~
Newcastle, OntarioAaaaaaw - I guess it just goes to show you that we all like babies, no matter what kind. I'm glad the tiger had a chance to be a "mommy"!
hugs,
Brenda
MerBear OriginalsI think if you check this out further it's not true- the pictures I believe are from a zoo in Thailand where they deliberately stage this scenes for visitors.
Sorry bout that!
Marion
No way Marion!! 
How on earth did they get that tiger not to eat the bigger little piggies in the last photo?! That would be a different kind of love altogether.......like LUNCH!! :P
Okay.....looked it up..........and YES, I am gullible!! :redface: But the pictures are still neat!
Here is the actual true story:
Comments: The photos are genuine, but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
To begin with, the snapshots were taken at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand (near Bangkok), not some nameless zoo in California. Moreover, it would appear that the sad tale of the tigress falling into a deep depression after losing a litter of cubs was fabricated, as was the claim that the piglets were substituted for the deceased cubs by zookeepers in order to console the "mourning mother."
As it happens, this sort of intermingling of species is not at all unusual at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, where "creating successful relationships with animals of different species" is something of a guiding principle. The facility, more accurately described as part zoo and part circus, boasts offbeat attractions like basketball-playing elephants, "lady crocodile wrestlers," and a petting zoo where customers can bottle-feed baby tigers with their own bare hands. Visitors have reported seeing tigers, pigs, and dogs all housed together within the same enclosure, with sows nursing tiger cubs and tigresses nursing piglets "adorned in tiger-print costumes."
The costumes are strictly for show, by the way. The mother tiger pictured above, who has been photographed on other occasions suckling piglets au naturel, was herself nursed by a pig in infancy and apparently regards the other species as family, not prey.
MerBear OriginalsThe following is the actual story about the pics.
The photos are genuine, but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
To begin with, the snapshots were taken at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand (near Bangkok), not some nameless zoo in California. Moreover, it would appear that the sad tale of the tigress falling into a deep depression after losing a litter of cubs was fabricated, as was the claim that the piglets were substituted for the deceased cubs by zookeepers in order to console the "mourning mother."
As it happens, this sort of intermingling of species is not at all unusual at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, where "creating successful relationships with animals of different species" is something of a guiding principle. The facility, more accurately described as part zoo and part circus, boasts offbeat attractions like basketball-playing elephants, "lady crocodile wrestlers," and a petting zoo where customers can bottle-feed baby tigers with their own bare hands. Visitors have reported seeing tigers, pigs, and dogs all housed together within the same enclosure, with sows nursing tiger cubs and tigresses nursing piglets "adorned in tiger-print costumes."
The costumes are strictly for show, by the way. The mother tiger pictured above, who has been photographed on other occasions suckling piglets au naturel, was herself nursed by a pig in infancy and apparently regards the other species as family, not prey.
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: Ha ha Marion!! We both posted the actual story at the same time!! :crackup: :crackup:
I'm still gullible :redface: :redface: .....................
Jellybelly BearsTracey I loved these picutes and thought it was true too lol...ready to copy it to show my sister when I read it wasn't real!! Ohhhhhh. How cute would it have been!!
Great photos tho and worth posting. 
Thanks 
xo sarah
