A Warm, Fuzzy Feel-good Story

This is one of those cute animal stories that ends up burning a path from person to person around the globe. Some people might dismiss this kind of thing as just making people feel better about themselves & the world. My reply is, just what the hell is wrong with that? Thanks to my friend Jeannie at Heartland Rabbit Rescue for sending this to me.
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The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon

Last updated at 13:08pm on 27th September 2007

They're an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.

The 12-week-old macaque - who was abandoned by his mother - was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province.

After being taken to an animal hospital his health began to improve but he seemed spiritless - until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon.

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The macaque nestles his head against his feathered friend.

The blossoming relationship helped to revive the macaque who has developed a new lease of life, say staff at the sanctuary.

Now the unlikely duo are never far from each other's side, but they aren't the only ones to strike up an unusual friendship.

Earlier this year a pig adopted a tiger cub and raised him along with her piglets because his mother couldn't feed him.

And in 2005 a baby deer named Mi-Lu befriended lurcher Geoffrey at the Knowsley Animal Park in Merseyside after she was rejected by her mother.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

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For another one of my favorite animal stories, you can read about Owen and Mzee on the NPR website. Owen is a baby hippo orphaned by the 2004 Tsunami who became BFFs with a 100 year-old Galapagos tortoise after he was rescued. They even have an eBook about it online here. This is my favorite picture of them, where Mzee crawls into the muddy water to sit next to Owen:
Kind of makes you feel better about your life & the world, doesn't it?