Dog mothers 6 piglets along with her own pups

Feeding time on Jim Favreau`s Lee County, Florida farm is simply business as usual for most animals, but Favreau`s litter of day-old piglets isn't going to their birth mother for milk. Instead, a rottweiler-pit bull mix who just gave birth to eight puppies is nursing the little squealers too.

"It's amazing, it's awesome. It's good to see though. It's good to see good things in life and this is one of them," said Angel Roman, a friend of the farm`s owner Jim Favreau. "The pigs just go scrambling all over it and that`s kind of cute to see," Matthew Roman said.

Jim Favreau said he rescued the newborn pigs during Monday's downpour. "The pigs were kind of stuck in the water. That spotted one was stuck all the way up to his neck and he was losing his air and more or less dying so I had to fight the mother pig to get the babies away and that was crazy it itself," said Favreau.



Favreau brought the piglets inside to dry off. That`s when he said his dog Tequila`s motherly instinct kicked in.

"With the noises they were making and everything, she just knew that they needed feed, so she fed them," Favreau said. "The dog would normally eat pigs. They would go out and hunt them. That`s something that they will do, but here this one is just nursing them along with her puppies so it`s like a rescue," Angel Roman said.

Favreau said Tequila will nurse the piglets for about a week. Then he'll start giving them pig feed.

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