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The story from the email: 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, they 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 pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops?? Take a look!
Myth? Please tell me it ain't so. Alas, according to Snopes.com, the online authority on urban myths, the pictures are real but the story above is not. But the true story is also pretty amazing.
We are willingly suspend our disbelief and find it easy to forgive the want of truth in the first story and decided to believe them both. Being too rational isn't always the best thing. On the subject of forgiveness--some believe it is the way to free our hearts and minds from fear, anger, resentment, suffering and pain. We have a wonderful book to share with you today. The authors of the With Forgiveness book have put together a wonderful special package for holiday giving. You can check it out at: With Forgiveness...Are You Ready?
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