[BlueNosePit]

After three baby squirrels lost their tree-home in Oxford, N.C., to a chain saw, they found a foster mom in a 4-year-old toy poodle named Pixie.

Dog owner Gail Latta said she tried unsuccessfully to feed the squirrels canned milk. Then the North Carolina woman turned to Pixie, who had recently had her own pups. They had been sold, but Pixie could still nurse. Pixie treated the foster squirrels like her own babies.

After two weeks, the squirrels were old enough to be weaned, and they had to go. Latta said she learned she might be violating state regulations by keeping wildlife in her home.

Latta said Pixie seemed a little upset when the squirrels were sent Saturday to an animal rehabilitation specialist, but she’s OK. Dog biscuits seemed to help Pixie’s recovery

[spookypooky]

Strong Maternal Instincts

[Faline]

awww

[Cumulonimbus]

Cute

[ices]

I hate grey squirrels.

Good for a .50 cal varmint hunt methinks.

[Billthegravedigger]

Maternal insticts, if only more people had them.

[knuggy]

[Dynamo47]

That's fantastic. Still sad when a poodle has better maternal instincts then some human mothers.

[PoetsOfTheFall]

awww...look at those eyes

[Xfactor]

When I was a kid we had a female german shepherd that hated everyone but us. She was big and beautiful so my dad breed her with a local Sir. After she gave birth the pups died. Shortly after we found her under the house nursing kittens.