Reviewed by Kristin
With all the sweet and funny animal pictures and
stories floating around the internet these days, do we really need a book on
the same subject? Yes, of course we
do. In my family we need all the
adorable cat (and maybe dog) pictures we can possibly “awwww” over.
Following on the heels of the New York Times
bestseller Unlikely Friendships about inter-species connections, Unlikely Loves shows many other best friends in the animal kingdom. Some of these pairs look like they would be
posing for selfies, if they only had opposable thumbs.
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| I call this my cat Todd's first attempt at a selfie. |
Zoe the dalmatian became extremely fond of a black
and white spotted lamb named Lambie.
Indeed, this pair looks like they could really be related. Spots everywhere!
Sasha the Rottweiler already had eight puppies when
her humans brought home a piglet named Apple Sauce who had been rejected by her
mother. Sasha’s motherly instincts
kicked in and joined the canine litter as just another one of the kids. The puppy-pig pictures might just make you
“squeal”.
My favorite stories in this book are the ones where
an animal takes an orphan or orphans of another species, and cares for the
young ones. When a young woman heard
that a litter of one week old kittens needed to be adopted and bottle fed, she
brought them home. Almost immediately,
her dog Sydney began to care for the kittens.
Sydney’s hormones even went into overdrive and she began lactating to
feed the kittens.
If this has tickled your fancy, be sure to pick up
Unlikely Loves at the Main library, or Unlikely Friendships from the Avoca
branch. These are books full of sweet
stories that are easy to flip through and enjoy. As Jeanne said, “I went through and read all
the cat ones. I have my priorities.”
See more pictures and stories at: http://unlikelyfriendshipsbook.tumblr.com/
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| Todd certainly wanted to be friends with Tink the hamster! |
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