You guessed it, Mom dog nurses kittens!

PITTENS!!11! Hooray for a great MoM. Perfect post for Mom’s day.

What a great mommy! And what a great Mother’s Day story. Horray for moms, in whatever form they come.

Pittens? PITTENS?? I find this word derogatory, speciesist, and offensive! They should be referred to by the politically correct term, “alternatively nurtured crepuscular mammals”.

If that’s too much of a mouthful, I suppose “dog-kits” would be an acceptable compromise.

I’m glad “Lily” was adopted. The little ones are cute, but it is the Momma that is amazing.

Mew!!!! Aww, so cute! Squee!

Ninjin, if the kitties grow up with floppy Lab-like ears, or they start lifting their legs to pee, I guess we’ll know it was a bad idea!

The kitties SLAYED me, and Lily’s sweet faced too. I’m so glad Lily has a forever home waiting. That’s the icing on a very cute cake.

What a sweet doggie!!! AWWW.

Pittens! I’ll take two.

How about “kippies”

Sooooo cute!!!! I think I’d rather call them “kuppies”.

I agree with MaySusanNoll – those kittens are so adorable but it is the mom I love – what a wonderful caring dog!!

who would’ve thought.

squee! i’m the lisa who submitted this. i’m so honored!

i agree with iwill–i love how eager lily is to take care of everyone, including the shelter workers. what a good girrrrl! she reminds me of my own good girl curled up on the couch beside me, who was a mama (10 puppies!) at the shelter before we brought her home. i just know that she’ll be that way when we bring some kittehs home in a month or two!

yay mamas.

Dogs can nurse kittens?! Mind. Blown.

Wouldn’t it be adorable if the mommy dog went to the same home as one of her kitten babies? With that detail added, it would be the perfect adoption story.

I’ll bet some of those kittens will have interesting experiences if they ever live in a house with a different dog!

At least 8 kinds of perfect. This is why doggies go to heaven.

I, too wondered about the “throwing up in the air” part, but all the kittehs look healthy…loved the part where you saw one tiny tabby rear foot straining out…
Second what Furbabies said:
“I wish more humans could be that accepting of other species. Happy Mother’s Day to all!”

The maternal instinct is so strong.

Also, this is my FIRST mothers day with having my baby kitty. (Even though she was an adult when I adopted her, Pip’s tiny and will always be a baby to me.)

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! What a wonderful mom! Bless her and her “pittens”.

What a pretty, pretty mummy dog. I can’t even believe she needed rescuing and re-homing, but there could be a genuinely sad story behind it. can we get updates on the re-homing of the kittehs?

I’m kinda wondering about the dog milk thing, too. I mean, there are metabolic differences between cats and dogs – dogs produce taurine, cats don’t. Does doggy milk have taurine? It looks like the kitties are old enough to be weaned onto dry food, anyway, so I think they’ll be okay.

I saw this on CBS Sunday Morning. More incredible was the brief snippet of National Geographic film showing a leopard (IIRC) who killed an orangutan, turned and saw the orang’s baby, and freakin’ adopted the baby orang! Weird.

;( _________/\ me…floored. And a little teary. How charming; hope to hear of a happy ending for all in this story.

Jenn: just get the link to the video on youtube and watch it there

[Yeah, usually you can just click on the video window to get there, as long as you don't click right on the gray "play" button in the center... - Ed.]

I prefer Puttens or Kuppies to Pittens.