Who says that cats and dogs have to be enemies?
In this heartwarming story, a cat and her “babies” show everyone that cats and dogs don’t have to be enemies and that they can be friends.
Debra Cantwell is the adoption coordinator at SPCA. SPCA, which stands for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is a nonprofit that was founded to combat animal cruelty. This organization is battling animal cruelty, which impacts thousands of animals.
Back in 2014, Debra Cantwell’s team came across a pregnant chihuahua who gave birth to her babies prematurely. Because of how early the birth happened, two of the Chihuahua babies did not make it.
“We had a little Chihuahua that was very pregnant and had her babies prematurely. She uh… two of them didn’t make it, but she didn’t want the other two. So we had a nursing cat upstairs and had newborn babies, so we took the puppies, put them on her to see if she liked them, and she loved them,” says Cantwell.
The other two were rejected by their mother, and the SPCA needed a quick plan to help these babies get the care and love they needed to survive. Debra knew she had to do something so that the other two babies could survive.
With quick thinking, Cantwell and her team passed the Chihuahua babies on to the nursing cat upstairs. They hoped that she would accept them as her own babies. The Siamese cat instantly fell in love, and she nursed and raised them as her own. It was heartwarming to see that a Siamese cat, with no relation to the Chihuahua dogs, was caring enough to take care of them as if they were her own children.
In the video below, you can see the mother cat and her adorable Chihuahua babies. She has strong maternal instincts, and from her gaze, you can tell just how much she cares about her cats.
It’s fascinating to see animals love each other despite their species. As humans, we can learn a lot from them!
These animals show us that you don’t have to be the same color, race, or even species to show love towards another. There is something about life that unites all of us. Life is worth cherishing, and it is worth it to nurture those in need.
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Joyce Perry
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Awesome..reminds me af a story where nice muslim lady injured in a bad car accident could not breast feed her baby. A jewish woman breast fed the baby in the mothers presence. They both felt the child came first..not what religion..not what race..not color. CGreat story.. and animals..feel the same apparently.
Barbara Bickford
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Good momma
Rose Marie
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Animals have more humanity than humans!!PROVED OVER AND OVER!!!!
Christine Fry
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Beautiful.
Jesse Martar
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Amazing story.
Angela Wright
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That is true.
Gail Snowden
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This a hoax? Don’t see a puppy suckling.
Dedee Shapiro
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IF ANIMALS OF DIFFERENT KINDS CAN LOVE EACHOTHER WHY CANN’T HUMANS??
Geneva Biddle
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very tiny
Eva Vereschagin Beeching
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Linda Trachsel
Marianne Holmans
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Courtney Clarke
Maria Carmody Slater
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Awesome
Kimberli Willis Paul
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Animals are so wonderful
Alice Sissy Cox-jones
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So cute
Gloria Picard
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boy would love to have one
Deidre Fitton
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I’ve had dogs raise kittens turkey raise chickens, chickens raise ducks n turkeys animals have kind hearts
Alana Hyde
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Kinder than most people.
Nila Swallie
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What a wonderful lesson for us all to learn!!!!!
Nancy Senn
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So loving and kind. Hmmmm ever watch a lion documentary? Male lions will kill and consume rival offspring. It puts the females back into heat. Then he can make his own babies. Animals are not always kind and loving. They’re animals.
Kathy Whitley
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So sweet
Teri Williams
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So amazing…how wonderful
Barbara Kring
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I took in a mama cat and when she gave birth my male Pomchi (fixed), named Raj took them as his own children. The three kittens are about nine months now and he still protects them, grooms them, and plays with them.
Maria Lenzo
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What a gorgeous mother cat♡♡♡
Deborah Dekle
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So beautiful
Linda Evans
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We had a chi mother that raised a kitten