At the Sadgorod Zoo in Vladivostok, Russia, eight orphaned hedgehogs found a new mom in the most unusual of animals: a black cat named Musya.
At the Sadgorod Zoo in Vladivostok, Russia, eight orphaned hedgehogs found a new mom in the most unusual of animals: a black cat named Musya.
The hoglets (yes, baby hedgehogs are called hoglets and it’s perhaps the cutest word I’ve ever heard) were found after their mother had been killed in an accident – tiny, blind and struggling for survival without their mother to protect them.
Zoo staff scooped up the hoglets and took them into care. The zoo’s team tried everything to get the eight hoglets to feed, but they refused milk from a bottle, syringe, and saucer for two days, even when they were placed on a heating pad to stimulate their digestion.
The fluffy black cat had recently raised and nursed a litter of foster kittens and still had milk to give.
