Cat Mothers Dog in Sweetest Video Ever: Watch

DETROIT, MI – Get your vocal cords tuned up because you’re about to “ooh” and “aah” and make other joyful guttural noises over this interspecies mothering story.

You may as well grab a handful of tissues, too, because is it ever sweet.

A Chihuahua was only two days old when he was taken to a Detroit area shelter after his mother was hit by a car and perished.

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The puppy still needed its mother’s nourishment, the Michigan Humane Society’s Faith O’Georgia said in a video news release. The shelter, one of the Humane Society’s partners, had a still-nursing mother cat, Gwen.

Employees had a light-bulb moment.

Now the puppy is nursing along with the cat’s kittens in a Humane Society foster home, where the animals will stay until they’re ready to be adopted.

The puppy, named Bobby, is now five weeks old.

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Ryan Tigue, a Humane Society spokesman, says the blended family disproves a common myth, that cats and dogs don’t get along.

“They can often become loving family members,” he said.

Image and video credit: Michigan Humane Society