to think that breastfeeding isn't right...

[ScaryBeardyDeadyman]

In this situation...

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Dozer I'm actually very committed to breastfeeding and its benefits. My wife is a volunteer lactation consultant and I know more about breastfeeding than most men I know.
However, breastfeeding animals is weird. The WHO and the NHS have never supported it.

Echo when people started talking about monkeys I knew I had to hit google.

is that kate garraway feeding a deer!?

I believe I have found my charitable niche..

it appear so!

wtf!?

and is that tori amos?

Sadly, I saw not one dolphin being Breastfed..

Have another

I've just called the FBI to impound your pc, you animal.

My car just saw these ^^ and got excited!

I find dogs a bit revolting so the thought of breastfeeding one is never going to be appealing.

But I'm bemused by some of the reactions on this thread. Surely that link doesn't need a warning? It's just daft, ridiculous, a bit yuck - it's not immoral or hideously offensive.

Unless, of course, you see bf as much, much more than as just a nice, cosy way of transmitting nutrition and other health benefits to your child. Which I know plenty of women do - all those on threads who say they could never bf a child that was not their own, or that they couldn't bear the thought of someone else bf their child. I bf for 22 months, I loved it, but I still never got it as this kind of quasi-spiritual bond thing.

I did dream I was breast feeding kittens when pregnant for the first time. I even felt their sharp little claws kneading my breasts...

Pickles! I just spit Diet Come all over my iPad!

FFS, i've already clicked on a wanking dog video ( yes, really ) and now this. I'ma gonna be scarred for life !

I see your name is fitting

A wanking dog? Front or back paws?

cyn diet come?!?

Yikes, all I can think is Lansinoh, Lansinoh, Lansinoh when I see that picture... must hurt like feck even though she says it doesn't!

OK-what am I missing?

How is she producing milk?

Yeah that is Tori Amos, I recognise the pic from one of her album covers.

Diet Come for those of use doing sexercise!

daddyman you never fail to amaze me with the insane stuff you find on google.

TheProvincialLady: I just did a quick google and found a Guardian review of a book on Wollestonecraft that refers to the puppies incident. It says:

"The significance of the moment is that the doctor has forbidden the child its mother's milk. Puerperal fever was known as milk fever. The belief was that it was the turning of the milk in the mother's breast that brought on the fever. Hence the use of puppies, which presumably were thought an efficient form of breast pump."

Incredibly sad. I suppose it does highlight the fact that medical knowledge has come a long way since then.

Why hasn't Huff Post tackled the real issue arising from that photo? What impact has this had on the dog's IQ? Is he now G and T?

I understand that Oxbridge are keeping tabs on the puppy in question...