This is the most united but unconventional family, as is common to see in animals and rarely in humans.
We have already witnessed on several occasions what a dog’s heart can hold, especially when it comes to taking in another animal in need, regardless of whether it is a different species.
The most varied scenes can be seen in this family living on a farm on the outskirts of Immenstadt, in the German region of Allgäu.
Kittens playing with ducks, ducks getting intimate with geese, that’s normal in this peaceful place.
And in the middle of all this happy animal revolution, you can also see a Border Collie dog called Molly. But the curious thing is that on top of her walks an adorable pink pig with a black head.
They even seem to be matching, the little pig curls up around Molly’s body, where she seems to find true happiness.
The little pig is called “Rosa von Schwarte.”
Molly has become her adoptive mother, and she is without a doubt the best mother she could have ever had. Rosa looks for her breast to suck the milk, and Molly, as if she were feeling super proud of being able to give this gift to the little pig, just wags her tail in happiness.
“I was actually planning to bottle-feed Rosa, but she wasn’t interested and went straight to Molly,” says owner Dieter Schetz.
Rosa was barely 6 weeks old when, after fighting against a litter of 13 siblings, she was so small that it was impossible for her to stand up and she could not feed herself.
But Rosita was able to grow thanks to Molly.
“Dogs are social creatures. But I’ve never heard of a female dog adopting a pig,” says Udo Kopernik of the German Kennel Club.
But what is really strange for her owners, although not for science, is that Molly, without having had a single litter, produced the milk she needed to feed Rosa. The truth is that female dogs can produce milk nine weeks after ovulation.
So what Molly has is a false pregnancy due to her maternal love, much stronger, more powerful and exemplary than that of many humans. And the best of all is that, if that weren’t enough, her milk is much more nutritious than that produced by a pig, which is a godsend for Rosa.
There’s just one small problem: Rosa has sharp fangs, so she won’t be able to receive breast milk for long, as it could harm Molly. So they alternate Molly’s milk with another baby formula to see if Rosa grows as strong as her siblings.
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