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Article: Missy the dog mothers two goslings.
- Article from:
- Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2007
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YOU'D be forgiven for thinking Missy the dog was quackers.
For the terrier has just become an unusual mother figure to goslings named Christmas Dinner and New Year's Eve.
And the one-year-old border-cross Lakeland bitch has even started producing milk after having a phantom pregnancy.
Their owner Kevin Harding, 44, said: "Missy just follows them around and they follow her. She's like a mother with puppies."
Builder Mr Harding, of West Thirston, near Felton, Northumberland, said Missy must have taken the goslings from where they were being kept and carried ...
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