Miracles of Interspecies Adoption: The Boxer Dog and His Kid Goat

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Filled with adorable photos of these baby animals and their foster moms and dads,
Filled with adorable photos of these baby animals and their foster moms and dads, "One Big Happy Family" by Lisa Rogak celebrates the intimacy and emotional connections of parenthood and the amazing miracle of interspecies adoption.
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Billy’s paternal instinct kicked in the instant he spotted Lilly...and he insisted on helping to clean and groom her, forming this adorable interspecies adoption.
Billy’s paternal instinct kicked in the instant he spotted Lilly...and he insisted on helping to clean and groom her, forming this adorable interspecies adoption.

Celebrating the amazing miracle of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family: Heartwarming Stories of Animals Caring for One Another (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013) highlights over 50 stories of animals that have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raised them as their own. From a bulldog and her baby squirrels to a cat and her ducklings, One Big Happy Family, by Lisa Rogak, contains the cutest and most surprising matriarch mixes. The following excerpt is from the section “The Boxer and His Kid.”

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The Boxer and His Kid

Elizabeth Tozer of the Pennywell Farm wildlife center at Buckfastleigh, in Devon, in the United Kingdom, was concerned in February 2008 when she checked in on the goat pen
and saw that one of her female goats had just given birth to three kids. Goats have their

  • Published on Jan 30, 2014
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