Just when you thought Shetland ponies couldn’t get any more adorable, they go ahead and quadruple their adorability in one squee-packed news item. A mother pony living in the Black Mountains in Wales let a lamb suckle from her despite having a young foal of her own.
This act of interspecies milk-guzzling is especially remarkable, notes the Telegraph, because Shetland mares are notoriously parsimonious with their teets. According to equine veterinarian Georgina Hirst, it’s hard enough trying to get a mare to feed her own foal, let alone some strange, knobby-kneed lamb orphan:
