The Shar Pei dog called Cleopatra has been breast-feeding and cleaning the Siberian cubs as if they were her own
It's an unusual family arrangement, but it looks like it works.Here are some heart-warming photos featuring mum, baby, dogs, cats and... tiger cubs.Last month the Mirror reported on how the two cubs, named Clyopa and Plyusha, had been adopted by a new mum.
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Siberian tiger cub Plyusha and Shar Pei puppy. Fighter play in the house of Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Plyusha and her sibling Clyopa in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The wrinkled, sandy-coloured Shar Pei dog called Cleopatra has been breast-feeding and cleaning the Siberian cubs as if they were her own.They also curl up and go to sleep together. The natural habitat of the Siberian tiger is under threat with the wild population declining. Most Siberian tigers, like this one pictured at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China, live in captivity
Siberian tiger cub Clyopa plays with cat Masyanya in the house of Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Clyopa and her sibling Plyusha in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
As well as being fed by Cleopatra, Plyusha and Clyopa are also being given goats milk.
Kudlayeva said that the cubs pose no danger to the dog even though they are already showing their claws and hissing.
Siberian tiger cub Clyopa plays with 18-month-old Gleb, son of Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Clyopa and her sibling Plyusha
‘They aren't aggressive and they depend on her for feeding,’ she said.
Fewer than 400 Siberian tigers - also known as Ussuri, Amur or Manchurian tigers - have survived in the wild, most of them in Russia's Far East.
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