Gone to the Dogs

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Meet A Hero Dog

Pigs are usually chased by dogs, but not always. We found one Super Hero Dog right here in Southwest Florida. This wonderful Hero Dog is serving as a lifeline to a litter of piglets struggling to survive after nearly drowning in a recent storm.

Feeding time on the farm is simply business as usual for most animals. But for one litter of day-old piglets, they aren't going to their birth mother for milk. Instead, a rottweiler-pit bull mix who just gave birth to eight puppies, is naturally 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 her and that's kind of cute to see," Matthew Roman said.

The farm owner said he rescued the newborn pigs during a recent downpour. "The pigs were kind of stuck in the water. He spotted one that was stuck all the way up to his neck, the little piglet 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. He then brought the piglets inside to dry off. That's when he said his dog Tequilla's motherly instinct kicked in.

"With the noises they were making ... the dog just knew that they needed to be fed, so she fed them." Favreau said that the dog would normally chase pigs. Instead this Hero Dog is just nursing them along with her puppies. Tequilla will nurse the piglets for about a week. Then the farmer will start giving them pig feed.

Now that is what I call a hero!

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