Piglets Go Undercover To Help Mourning Mama Tiger
Contrary to popular belief, I’m not some overly-skeptical, heartless monster. My initial reaction to seeing this tweet come across my feed was, “aww this is the most heartwarming thing I’ve ever seen”. It was only before I was about to favorite and keep mindlessly scrolling Twitter that I really thought to peel back the layers to this one.
For starters,
Just for the sake of this portion of the blog, imagine being a little piglet, all cute and shit. You’re doing piglet things and then some human comes and wraps you in a blanket. You think, “Ha-Ha very funny pigs in a blanket. Very original.” (stolen joke from my real, non-piglet brother. Made better by me) [Love you Tomas]. You look at your sibling piglets and get a little spooked out for a second cause for a quick second you thought you saw a tiger. Wait a second, they’re wearing tiger blanket costumes? You look to the calendar and no it’s not Halloween, so wtf is going on? They take you and your disguised piglet siblings AWAY FROM YOUR OWN MOTHER into the cage/housing of one of nature’s greatest predators, the tiger?! WHAT???? WHERE DID I SIGN UP FOR THIS?? PLS TAKE ME BACK TO MOM, LIKE LITERALLY
By the grace of God, the tiger just lays there. Okay, that’s odd, but what are we gonna do in here, it’s only a matter of time, right? Let’s just not mess with her and oh my god you’re gonna lay us down right on top of her?!
Now imagine being that mourning tiger and they cover these blanketed piglets on you. Just imagine how hard these little piglets’ hearts RACING on top of you?? They’ve basically just laid a massage gun of piglets on your side.
From there, the bond is formed between this mourning tiger and the piglets, and it’s just cute. Again, I found my heart warmed by this story and thought of how happy the piglets were. I just hope the momma pig wasn’t too concerned about her babies and knew they were out living for the greater good.
Then, I had to question just how the zookeeper (or whoever did this) was so sure that this would work? Like how could he have been so certain that casually throwing bait to a mourning tiger wouldn’t cause tiger instincts to kick in? The balls that it must’ve taken to pitch this at a team meeting about how to cheer up the tiger.
“Woah, sounds like someone has been watching way too much Winnie the Pooh. Am I right guys?” — Me at the meeting needing to get a terrible joke off
Lastly, on a more serious note, depressed tigers make me sad. The lack of the tiger’s natural instincts to wreak havoc on any prey because of depression really just goes to show how devastating depression can be. It’s nothing to try and brush off as “just a sadness that will pass”. If you’re feeling symptoms of depression, please seek help by finding a therapist or at least talking to friends/family whom you trust who might be able to assist you in finding help. We can’t have badass tigers such as yourself not roaming around doing cool tiger shit, living your life to its fullest and happiest. Life is incredibly hard and there’s a lot of twists and turns that sometimes throw you off. There’s no shame in seeking that assistance. We all need it from time to time. There’s a lot of willing and able piglets who are just wanting to show you the love you deserve. Possibly, paying any help they may have received in the past forward to you.
Songs played while writing:
Flight Facilities — Down to Earth [Album]
