Chinese farmer claims sheep gave birth to ‘puppy’
March 26th, 2011 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 26 (ANI): A farmer in China has insisted that one of his sheep gave birth to a puppy that has wool like a lamb’s, but mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail like a dog’s.
Chinese farmer Liu Naiying told how he found the unusual baby animal shortly after it was born in one of his fields in Shaanxi Province.
“I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
“When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog.
“I was a bit frightened, as I’ve been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature,” he said.
Yue Guozhang, a researcher at Xi’an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre, said sheep and dogs were different species.
“It’s not possible that a sheep could become pregnant with a puppy. It’s likely that this is just an abnormal lamb,” he added. (ANI)
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