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The
Dog and The Piglet
A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family
after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother.
Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took
on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen - a tiny pot-bellied pig -
and seems to be taking the adoption in her stride.
Lonely
Paulinchen was luckily discovered moments from death and placed in the
care of the dog who gladly accepted it as one of her own. Thankfully
for the two-week old mini porker, Katjinga fell in love with her at
first sight and saved her bacon.
And the unlikely relationship has made the wrinkly piggy a genuine sausage
dog. In these adorable images Paulinchen can even be seen trying to
suckle from her gigantic new mum.
The two animals live together on a huge 20-acre farm in Hoerstel, Germany,
where Katjinga's owners Roland Adam, 54, and his wife Edit, 44, a bank
worker, keep a pair of breeding Vietnamese pigs.
Property
developer Roland found the weak and struggling piglet after she was
abandoned by the rest of her family one evening after she was born.
He said: "The pigs run wild on our land and the sow had given birth
to a litter of five in our forest. I found Paulinchen all alone and
when I lifted her up she was really cold. I felt sure some local foxes
would have taken the little pig that very night so I took it into my
house and gave her to Katjinga. She had just finished with a litter
of her own, who are now 10 months, so I thought there was a chance she
might take on the duties of looking after her."
"Katjinga is the best mother you can imagine. She immediately fell
in love with the piggy. Straight away she started to clean it like it
was one of her own puppies. Days later she started lactating again and
giving milk for the piggy. She obviously regards it now as her own baby."
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