Wednesday 11 March 2009

My god, the cuteness!

Ok, so I've been doing rather a lot of internet research of late, mostly about British food and so on.  While researching pig's trotters (also known as crubeens, a traditional Irish pub food) I managed to stumble across this picture:


And yes, if you're wondering the piglets are wearing teeny little tigerskin coats.  The backstory turns out to be rather more sinister, apparently they were introduced to their surrogate mother as part of a publicity stunt at a zoo in Thailand where they also force the animals to do circus performances.  Surprisingly, tigresses often adopt orphaned piglets, and sows likewise adopt tiger cubs.  You can read the full article here





2 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh! That is the best thing i've seen in ages!

    P.s i found this and thought of u http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19344977

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  2. woow how cute!! this is what i posted on my blog....it's just amazing!

    http://saintbarbie.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/things-that-make-you-go-aahh/

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