House Cat Adopts & Nurses Baby Red Panda
An Amsterdam zookeeper’s nursing cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother and is caring for it along with her own kittens. The panda and its sibling were abandoned by their mother were initially kept in an incubator. However the keeper’s cat, which had just given birth, took the two and let them feed off of her alongside its kittens. While one of the baby red panda’s didn’t make it, the other has been thriving and even plays with it’s adoptive siblings.
Officials at the Amsterdam zoo say they plan on letting the cat continue nursing it for three months before switching the panda over to bamboo and fruit.
