6/19/07

Tiger Pigs and Graduation

In a zoo in California, a mother tigress gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was declared healthy by the veterinarians. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.

After many prayers, they were finally given a response



When you do common things, in uncommon ways

You command the attention from the world



Tonight is my graduation! I'm ecstatic! I moved to my town only a year before, and I'm graduating from middle school. My summer won't be that great though. I have to go to a special private summer school to take credits to skip Honors Advanced Geometry to Honors Advanced Algebra 2. And on top of that, I'm going to register for tennis which I have to play everyday, and I have clarinet lessons.


I'll post some pictures later! :)