A woman's breastfeeding of animals is a well-known tradition that is still popular in some cultures. The reasons for women to breastfeed animals are varied: not feeding the animals, in order to get rid of milk after pregnancy, to develop good nipples and even to avoid conception.

From the 16th to the 18th century, British and German doctors recommended using puppies to suck milk from a woman's breast, and in 1799 German doctor Friedrich Benjamin Oziander reported that in this way one of the patients got rid of a chest cyst.

Religious and ceremonial reasons for women feeding animals are also known. St. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), an Italian nun and mystic, often took a lamb to bed with her to feed. The Lamb was considered a symbol of the Lamb of God. In faraway northern Japan, an annual festival was held in which a female-fed bear was sacrificed. In Kamchatka, the Itelmens fed bears to feed on bear meat and use bear bile in traditional medicine.

Until now, all over the world, animals are used as an "alternative" to children. Animals help breastfeeding mothers keep their nipples "firm", aid milk production and prevent inflammation and infections. This same method was practiced in the United States until 1845, when one of the doctors suggested using a nurse instead of animals. Some tribal peoples still use animals for the same purpose. Travelers in Guyana observed native women breastfeeding a variety of animals, including monkeys, possums, and deer.

The act of breastfeeding animals is sometimes used as a controversial artistic expression these days.

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A 27-year-old Chinese woman volunteered to help her trainer husband by breastfeeding his charges. Jiao Xinjen became an Internet star when unusual photos of her breastfeeding a small monkey were circulated on the Web.

The husband of a 27-year-old woman from Henan Province, China, is a trainer. The family maintains a training camp for monkeys, who later become circus performers and movie stars.

Even before meeting his wife, 34-year-old Huang Aiging was very fond of animals and wanted to connect his future profession with caring for our smaller brothers. To do this, Huang independently began training monkeys for circus activities and street performances. Over the years of practice, the man has become the best specialist in his field in China.

My husband devoted a lot of time to work, and I decided to help him in a difficult task. The secret of our success is that we treat monkeys like family, - says Zhao.

According to the woman, she began to make her main contribution to the family business after the birth of a son named Tai.

Our child was growing up, and he had no one to play with, - recalls Zhao Xinjen. - And so that he would not be bored, I brought monkeys to the house. Surprisingly, they immediately became friends!

Once, when the mother was breastfeeding, one of her tailed favorites jumped onto the bed. According to the woman, she could not resist the pleading look of the animal and ... treated him with her milk.

Since then, Zhao regularly feeds furry pets. The couple even "adopted" one of them, settling in their house.

When I watch my child play with monkeys, I see how similar and close we are all. I feel that they are all - and my children, - says the Chinese woman.

We know well that history knows cases when wild animals fed human babies with their milk - there are hundreds of examples of this. But today we will tell you, and most importantly, we will illustrate a radically opposite situation: when the representatives of the human race breastfeed a variety of newborn animals.

And along with representatives of the tribes and nationalities that inhabit our planet, where such an attitude is considered the norm, we will see show business stars such as Tori Amos and Keith Garraway.

So:

Vijay Luxmi Sau brought up a fawn; at that time she had a 7 month old baby at home.

Namita Das. When her adult children flew out of the nest, she began to breastfeed her other "son" - a baby monkey. (how did she do it?)

Kura “Kat” Tumanako has a tiny girl (her name is Honey Paulin) and a bull terrier puppy. They are like brother and sister ... something like that. In order to compensate for the differences in appearance, Kat tries to strengthen the brother-sister relationship by breastfeeding them both. Did the idea work? Unknown

Tori Amos is a world-famous American singer, pianist, composer and songwriter who combined elements of alto, folk and prog rock, jazz in her work.

Photos for her album Boys for Pele, where she breastfeeds a piglet, rocked the entire conservative America. This photo is said to have inspired her for motherhood. But, as you know, they say a lot….

The number of golden monkeys in the world can be counted on one hand. If not for Ms. Chen Yongiian, one finger would be missing

English TV star Kate Garraway and a poster of her breastfeeding a calf!

For the Awa Guaja tribe in the Amazon estuary, breastfeeding monkeys is the norm. The monkey is a sacred animal for them. After birth, baby monkeys continue to grow, sleep and play next to human babies.

This attitude towards animals is normal among some local tribes in New Guinea. Is the pig hungry? No problems …

Some people really love their pets crazy. Chouthi Bai, from Guildu Village, is one of them. Her 23-day-old calf (pictured) enjoys her full love

A Polynesian woman is breastfeeding a small child and some kind of animal!

History knows many cases when wild animals breastfed human cubs. The most typical example is a boy fed by a she-wolf. He served as the prototype for Mowgli in literature and cinema.

But here's the opposite case - the feeding of newborn animals by representatives of the human race causes, at least, bewilderment. Nevertheless, these facts do take place, and the editors of our site present you with some funny photos where women are breastfeeding the cutest four-legged animals.

Indian woman has time to feed her baby and breastfeed the fawn

Fashion model, breast, breast milk, piglet ...

Model is breastfeeding a puppy

American became a nurse of a kitten

Calf drinks milk from the breast of an Indian woman

Papuasca breastfeed a pig whose ancestor was introduced, perhaps by Miklouhoi-Maclay

Chinese woman breastfeeding a monkey

There are also just funny pictures of women making fun while breastfeeding animals ... In the photo: Cuban model Sabrina Boeing with a calf.

What are the guides of women who feed their cubs with their own breasts? We can only guess. These photos are shocking to many. Let's talk about the last one from our selection.

Shown here is a 44-year-old mother breastfeeding her puppy Spider. This is Terri Graham from California, who recently gave birth to her second child. For health reasons, the mother could not feed the baby with her milk and expressed it.

Once she noticed that the four-legged pet of the family licks the nipple with a satisfied sniff. She decided to put the dog to her chest, and he already smacked! “The spider gave me the opportunity to feel like a nursing mother,” says Terry.

Thanks to this "stimulation", the woman's lactation lasted for two years. True, psychologists suggest that the woman is a little not herself - postpartum depression affects.

Video: female breastfeeding of baby animals

Video: a woman breastfeeds a puppy

Video: American breastfeeding a puppy

Loving animals is good! Taking care of them and helping them is great too. But sometimes people become overly obsessed with their pets, and these relationships reach the point of absurdity.
In today's column I want to tell you about three women who, because of their wild attachment to our younger brothers, decided to breastfeed them.
And it seems that each of them has an explanation for this oddity, but still this action is incomprehensible and to some extent even unpleasant.
I'll start with the Brazilian model and DJ Sabrina Boeing.
Because of her great love for animals, she decided to feed the calf with her own breast. To do this, she went to her hometown.
She filmed the whole process and published it on her Instagram page, where she has about 17 thousand supporters. In the description of the photographs, the model admitted that the calf did not immediately clung to her chest, but after a while it was still seduced by the curvy forms of Sabrina ...
In the comments, Instagram users called Sabrina's act "disgusting" and "meaningless." However, she herself does not think so.
"Some things have no explanation. They are just worth trying," the model wrote on her page.
This is not the first breastfeeding the Brazilian model has done. She recently tried to feed an ostrich in the same way.

But this 44-year-old housewife Terry Graham from America drew a barrage of criticism by publicly talking about breastfeeding her dog.

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Terry Graham immediately became the heroine of numerous tabloids around the world. Fame came to her after an unusual photo was published on one of the social networks - an American woman breastfeeds her dog. The footage, in which a happy housewife from California pressed a pug named Spider to her left chest, immediately drew condemnation from the Internet community. Internet users could not understand the motives of the woman's behavior.

As it turned out, Graham decided to resort to a very strange way of feeding her pet after the birth of her second child.

“Unfortunately, for many reasons, I could not breastfeed both of my children, - said Terry Graham in an interview. - I was very complex about this. And then one day I expressed milk for my newborn son and poured it into a bottle. Spider ran up to me and began to lick the nipple. "

According to the woman, it was then that she realized what her pet needed. Terri decided to succumb to maternal instinct, and for two years now she has been feeding her pet with breast milk.

"I only feel like a full-fledged mother after I breastfeed my dog," admitted Graham.

Psychologists say that the most likely reason for the woman's strange behavior is serious psychological problems caused by postpartum depression.

The milk of Xiao Xingtsen, a 27-year-old resident of China, helps her husband train monkeys for the circus faster and more efficiently.

After training, primates go to work in the circus, theaters and even cinema. For this, 34-year-old Hang Akin is well paid. The wife decided to support her husband's business and began to feed the monkeys with her own breast.

"It feels like they really are my children," says Xiao Xingtsen.

The husband begins to train monkeys when they are still very young. And since Xiao feeds them "like a mother", they get used to it and quickly begin to understand commands.

"Sometimes, when we sleep, monkeys crawl into our bed and suck my milk," Xiao said.

"In this house, the monkey is king," adds her husband.
: felbert.livejournal.com