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A day later, the mother stopped caring for them. Harvey said the cubs were wandering on every side of, trying to find their birth mother, who wouldn’t pay reflection to them. That’s when the cubs were put in the care of a resplendent retriever, Harvey said.

Harvey said it’s unusual for dogs to care for tiger cubs, on the other hand it does happen. He said he has seen reports of pigs nursing cubs in China, and he in fact got the golden retriever after his wife saw television accounts of dogs caring for tiger cubs.

Puppies use about the same amount of time as tiger cubs to develop, and Harvey said the adoptive mother good recently weaned her confess puppies.

“The timing couldn’t have been any more intimate. see various meanings of good,” he aforesaid.

The mother doesn’t know the difference, Harvey declared. He aforesaid the adopted mother licks, cleans and feeds the cubs.

The Safari Zoological Park is a licensed facility open since 1989 and specializes in endangered species.

It has leopards, lions, cougars, baboons, ring-tailed lemurs, bears and other animals. It currently has seven white tigers and couple orange tigers.

Because whit tigers are inbred from the first specimen found more than a half-century ago, they are not as genetically stable in the manner that orange tigers.

The zoo’s former litter of white tiger cubs was born April 23, although one of the three has since gone to a private zoo near Oklahoma City.