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There’s a lot of complicated feelings about pit bulls that people have. There’s a dedicated group that thinks that pit bulls are violent and a danger to society, and there are others who usually own pits themselves, who know they’re just big babies. This story is about a young puppy named Nicholas, whose mother went crazy and started cannibalizing her pups. This might seem a little extreme to you, and that’s because it is, but one must remember that animals in that animal kingdom sometimes default to their more primal instincts.
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Cannibalism in animals isn’t as uncommon as you might think, as wild gerbils are known to cannibalize their newborns because of lack of food, or habitat, or whatever. It’s heartless and cruel to us as intelligent human beings, but to animals, that’s nature. That’s life.
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But they’re capable of more than just cruelty, because animals have, for one reason or another, figured out a way to show compassion and empathy. When Nicholas lost his leg because of his mother, he was adopted into a family that had several cats. These cats, with love from their foster mother, drowned baby Nicholas in love and affection, and they would curl around him to keep him warm and safe for days at a time.
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It’s a kick in the face to the idea that dogs and cats hate each other and are always at each other’s throats. Just because some dogs fight some cats doesn’t mean it’s like that globally. In hindsight, it’s somewhat of a silly stance that we’ve taken as a human race that dogs hate cats and vice versa. They’re animals, they don’t hate, that’s a human thing. What they can do is love and protect, because that’s instinctive,
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His human foster mother, Ale Oviedo, took Nicholas in to stay with Clementine, a cat with five siblings, who saw the awful predicament the poor puppy went through, and decided to take matters into their own hands. The kitties love and protect Nicholas like he’s one of their own, because as far as they’re concerned, he is. In a place that loves him so openly and so affectionately, it’s hard for Nicholas to be like his mother.
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He’s growing up little by little, and the Instagram that runs his growth and blossoming will document all the important steps, all the way to the end.
