Saturday, March 26, 2011

The puppy born to a sheep







Just read this story on Mail online. It’s hard to believe but then anything is possible. Although vets say that it is not possible cause they are 2 different species but Chinese farmer Liu Naiying this birth is nothing short of a miracle. One of his sheep had given birth to a dog & he’s very cute. His wool is just like lambs but his mouth, nose, eyes, paws & tail look more like that of a dog.





Mr. Liu told how he found the unusual baby animal shortly after it was born in one of his fields.



‘I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,’ he said.



I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog. ‘I was a bit frightened, as I've been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature.’



Yue Guozhang, a researcher at Xi'an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre, said sheep and dogs were different species. ‘It's not possible that a sheep could become pregnant with a puppy,’ he said. ‘It's likely that this is just an abnormal lamb.’



Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1369977/Sheep-gives-birth-dog-Chinese-farm-Ewe-got-kidding.html#ixzz1Hp2opzc4





http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Sheep_gives_birth_to_dog