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Most dogs love to chase cats.
But Blakely the Australian Shepherd is currently raising a baby cheetah at the Cincinnati zoo.
The cub was the only survivor of her litter born at the zoo’s breeding facility.
That’s a problem because mother cheetahs will stop producing milk when they don’t have enough cubs.
So while zoo staff tends to the cub’s nutritional needs, Blakely is serving as a surrogate parent, teaching social skills and good manners.
He even came out of retirement to do it.
Before leaving the zoo in 2017, Blakely cared for foxes, wallabies, tigers, a warthog and several other cheetahs.
Once the cub is healthy enough to move out of the care center, zoo officials plan to let Blakely go back home and get the cub a puppy to grow up and play with.
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