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The Big Bad Bulldog and the Wee Little Piglets

This is a somewhat disgustingly cute story of the big bad French bulldog, who adopted 6 bad little pigs that were orphaned in Germany. The abandoned animals were found by walkers in woodland a week ago. They brought them to a nearby animal sanctuary in Lehnitz, where Baby the bulldog lives. Baby has “motherly instincts”

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Haunting Vintage Photos of Ghostly Mothers and their Children

How haunting are these photos? The “Hidden Mother” is a type of 19th century photo where a child is photographed sitting in his or her mother’s lap. Later, the photo is matted or framed to hide the mother, leaving just the calm child in view. To make the cropping less obvious, the mother was sometimes

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Lil’ Drac – Cutest Orphaned Baby Bat Ever

You’re about to have your opinion of bats changed forever. This is the tale of Lil’ Drac, a short-tailed fruit bat taken in by Bat World Sanctuary, after the little guy was abandoned by his mother who was traumatized when a zoo she was living in closed and she had to be moved. Because he’s

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Baby Got Back

Do you think the mom put the kid on her or did the kid climb up there on her own? I’m just trying to imagine how that conversation would go the first time it happened. [Cheers pleated-jeans]

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Grandmother Tips for Today’s Generation

Forget those classic grandmother comments – “Get a haircut, you look like a hippie” or “save your money for a rainy day”… Chacho Puebla’s latest project involves his sister’s great aunt with some updated tips for today’s generation using some lovely typography. When you´re younger you think you´ll never fall into that same kind of

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Raised by Pigs, Tiger returns the Favor

This is going back a few years, but cuteness never grows old. These pictures come from Siracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand, where the intermingling of species is not at all unusual… The tiger herself was raised by pigs, so she sees pigs as some kind of weird, bald tigers. Although the Sriracha Tiger Zoo is

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Baby Rupert

Rupert, a three-month-old wombat joey, sits in a teacup at the Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia. He was rescued from his mother’s pouch when she was killed by a car. [Cheers telegraph]

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Newborn Tortoise 3,000 Times Smaller than its 90-Year old Mom

A 90-year-old tortoise has given birth to a one-inch-tall baby that is expected to live to the year 2161. The hatchling weighed just 87 grams when it was born and will take 30 years to get to the same size as its mother, who is a massive 256 kilos. Keepers will not know if it

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Mom what the Hell are you Doing

With a look of utter shock, this one week-old monkey encounters his first grooming session. This baby Japanese macaque has to grasp hold of a rock in front to steady himself as his red-faced mother sifts through his downy hair, picking out ticks and dandruff. Japanese Photographer Mitsuaki Iwago – who shot the hilarious picture

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Britain’s Drunkest Woman – She should be Dead

Just a little story to get your minds of the riots…oh wait beer is probably the reason folks went bonkers. Dawn Marsden’s booze intake is a staggering 84 units in 24 hours. The shoplifting mother downs 28 pints (16 litres) of beer a day…the 31-year old drinks so much, she should be dead. Jobless Marsden