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Monday, November 23, 2009
Shyla the Chihuahua and Her Kittens
A cat-loving chihuahua cross has given hope to a litter of seven abandoned kittens by suckling them as their surrogate mother.
For the last two weeks Shyla has been suckling the tiny moggies, who are now three weeks old and thriving.
While the two-year-old dog has never had any puppies of her own, owner Angela McFall said Shyla has always been a cat fancier.
"She prefers cats. She gets a bit bossy with dogs, whereas she loves cats,'' McFall said.
A cross between a fox terrier and a chihuahua, Shyla first nursed a ginger kitten brought home by McFall last year.
McFall, who works as a veterinarian, said dogs that have had a season on heat sometimes experience a false pregnancy.
"They start producing milk and they get quite hormonal. Shyla started nursing [the ginger kitten] which was quite sweet but unusual,'' she said.
McFall said that kittens hand-reared by humans needed bottle-feeding every two hours and were more likely to die.
She said that dog and cat powdered milk formulas were generally the same so it was likely Shyla's milk contained the right nutrients for cats.
Two weeks ago, when another veterinary clinic found a litter of stray kittens, Shyla was brought in as a foster mum.
"Shyla protects them. I've got two other dogs at home, bigger dogs. If they go near the kittens, watch out.
"Shyla cleans their bottoms and lays with them all the time. They are growing really strong and healthy,'' she said.
McFall said although it was unusual, it was not that rare and recently learned that Shyla is not the only canine surrogate in the country.
A three-year-old Dunedin chihuahua named Anna is currently nursing three two-week-old kittens.
The unwanted Persians were adopted by Anna's owner Carole Wiffen last Friday.
Anna, who had a litter of five puppies earlier this year, was nursing the kittens by Sunday.
Interspecies adoption isn't against the laws of the jungle either, as documentary makers for National Geographic found in 2006.
While in Botswana the crew filmed a leopard killing an adult baboon, unaware it was creating an orphan of a one-day-old baby clinging to its mother's belly.
When the leopard heard the tiny baby cry out, she gently picked it up in her mouth and carried it up a tree, as if it were her own cub.
The mismatched pair huddled in the tree all night, but by morning the tiny baboon had died. It was simply too small to survive without its natural mother.
Documentary maker Derek Joubert told the UK's Daily Mail that the leopard was like a mother cat rather than a predator with its prey.
"She forgot momentarily that she was a hunter. It was quite extraordinary and very moving to watch,'' he said.
83 Year Old Hugh Hefner Almost Died Having Sex
HANDS FULL: Hugh Hefner turned Playboy into a symbol for a lifestyle he embodied as bachelor extraordinaire, living in a mansion surrounded by wealth and beautiful women
The 83-year-old Playboy publisher - who is currently dating Crystal Harris and twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon - choked on a sex toy while in bed with a group of his girlfriends.
He revealed: "What is the closest I've come to death? There was a moment when I was having sex with four Playmates and I almost swallowed a Ben Wa ball."
The media mogul also revealed he prefers to spend most of his time in bed, doing as many activities as possible there.
He added: "My most treasured possession is my rotating round bed.
"I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. I relax with my girls in bed, just watching a movie and having a good time.
"If I had to dress up in fancy dress, I'd wear my pyjamas."
However, Hugh admits the aging process is starting to affect his sleep patterns.
He said: "I need to go to the toilet several times a night - that comes with age."
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Two year-old Evelyn-Marie Dewhurst, 2, of Reikorangi N.Z., and a 23 inch tall American Miniature Horse prove that the cutest things come in small packages.
Talking mapgie tops pecking order as cat befriends birds
THREE AMIGOS: Maggy the magpie, Pussy the cat and Yellow Bird the yellow bird - three unlikely friends - were reluctant to perform for the camera. The trio see nothing unusual in their friendship.
In the Garden of Eden the lion lay with the lamb, but in one garden in Waitara, New Zealand the magpie plays with the cat.
Adele Crofskey and Barney Smart's Princess St farmlet is home to goats, guinea fowl, pigs, sheep, ducks, cows and peacocks.
But the star of this menagerie is undoubtedly Maggy, the talking magpie who may or may not realise it is not a human and definitely does not realise her best mate, Pussy, is an instinctive bird eater.
"Go away. Go away," she squawked at Adele as she tried to coax her to play with the cat.
"She's grumpy because Barney picked her up down in the back paddock and brought her in here for a photo. She's sulking now.''
"Go away. Go away,'' the bird continued to whine.
The bird was found as a chick by Barney on one of his possum lines. Though of rough looking exterior, the long-time possum, deer and goat hunter couldn't leave a bird in need.
He brought her home and the pair hand-raised the bird for the past few years.
She now welcomes guests with the blunt "What do you want?'', has a colourful way of telling visitors where to park and frequently pretends to be a rooster.
"I don't think she knows she's a magpie'' Barney says.
Just as there are suspicions the cat, Pussy, doesn't know he is a cat. He has reportedly never tried to eat Maggy or the yellow bird, naturally called Yellow Bird, who is their frequent companion.
The trio play and sleep together but part for meal times.
"Well, Pussy's never been much of a hunter or he would have eaten Yellow Bird,'' Adele says, adding that the confused cat's usual diet is fresh rabbit meat, shot by Barney of course.
"We've always called Maggy 'Maggy' and Yellow Bird 'Yellow Bird'. I suppose we just never found a name that fit right for the cat so we always called her Pussy.
"I always wanted a cat that was called Calici, you know like the virus but we could never agree,'' Adele says.
JOKE: George Burns was on the Oprah Winfrey Show
George Burns was on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and bragged, that despite his 97 years, he could still have sex three times a night. After the show, Oprah said, "George, if I'm not being too forward, I'd love to have sex with an older man. Let's go back to my place.
So they go back to her place and have great sex. Afterwards, George says, "If you think that was good, let me sleep for a half hour, and we can have even better sex. But while I'm sleeping, hold my testicles in your left hand, and my penis in your right hand."
She says okay. He sleeps for half an hour, awakens, and they have even better sex. George says, "Oprah, that was wonderful. But if you let me sleep for an hour, we can have the best sex yet. But again, hold my testicles in your left hand, and my penis in your right hand."
Oprah says,"Great, George, but tell me, does my holding your organs stimulate you while you're sleeping?"
George replies, "No, but the last time I slept with a black woman, she stole my wallet."
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