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this story was in some other paper, like the Weekly World News, I'd dismiss it as a tall tale, but the material on stuff.co.nz is usually fairly reliable. They report about a (human) mother who has taken to breastfeeding her puppy. What I find interesting is that the reporter took the initiative to interview an anthropology professor about what this woman is doing (or claiming to be doing), and got this interesting nugget of information:
"Victoria University associate professor of anthropology Jeff Sissons said he was familiar with a practice among women from Papua New Guinea hill tribes who breastfed pigs, but he had not heard of any other instance of a human breastfeeding another species." Next time I'm at a cocktail party I'm going to try casually mentioning that little gem of trivia.
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I still think I'm right.
A woman of my acquaintance told me breastfeeding her children was a fantastically pleasurable experience; so why go to all the trouble of having children? Puppies and piglets are easier to care for. Besides, if the pig gets tiresome later, you can always have bacon.
(I had to hire a lactation consultant to help me get breast-feeding started after a C-section. She was very knowledgeable.)
Craig, just remember, the whole time you're staring at boobs, you'll be listening to a hungry baby wail. Don't forget the part where new you're usually looking at a post-pregnancy body...riddled with stretch marks.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3101393a11,00.html
Brestfeeding will supposedly prevent the resumption of ovulation, and hence conception, for a while, but it isn't considered a very reliable method of contraception. In fact, I know at least two people who depended on this principle for pregnancy prevention, and as a result each had a second baby less than a year after the first.
They seem to be screencaps from a TV show. The japanese caption (probably of the TV show) says something like "Sucking, it won't leave her".
It's not often that you find bilingual inscriptions in Japanese and Spanish.
That feline is an adult cat, not a kitten. It would have been weaned (from its own mother) a long time ago.
I've heard that many adult cats are lactose intolerant, so Kitty may be throwing up in the next picture (not shown).
Wow, and I thought I was crazy. ...
The story is true - it was also on the front of the paper in Hastings (Hawkes Bay Today). It was on the paper's website but I can't find it anymore.
lambs & kids the goat kind.
What next? Where does it end?