A very lucky kitten named Tahoe has been adopted by Lillie, a very loving, and apparently forgiving, dachshund. The little kitten had climbed into a Tahoe truck (thus, his name) and slept by the warm engine. When the driver of the car heard a cat meowing she thought it was her imagination but when it didn’t stop, she opened the hood of her truck found the kitten.
Eunice Collins, the woman driving the Chevy Tahoe took the little guy home and before she and her husband knew it, their dog Lillie had adopted him as her own.
“We kept him in our bedroom,” Eunice Collins said. “I woke up four days later and he was nursing on Lillie. I couldn’t believe it.”
Today, Tahoe and Lillie hang out, nap and cuddle together. In the mornings, at night and following naps, Tahoe rolls over and feeds from Lillie, purring and pawing at his new mother’s belly.
Lilly lays still, content to be a mother again.
“She’s a good dog,” Beck, the veterinarian said. “Having Tahoe around induced a false pregnancy, a nursing response. It made the hormones needed to produce milk. Now, I’m sure the cat obviously had it in her mind the dog was her mother.”
Eunice Collins said, “Lillie is a very loving longhaired dachshund. She has just taken Tahoe on as her baby, and has been nurturing and taking care of him. They’re just very close.”
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My weiner dog (red) did the same for two abandoned kittens who were about 4 weeks old. I found them in the street in a basket. they are now 8 and when they come into the house or into a room, they run to her first.