Hamster Dog Loves Real Dogs

When you’re the only one of your kind, the world is your family. That’s the lesson learned by Cheesecake, an easygoing capybara who’s been at Rocky Ridge Refuge in Arkansas since she was a baby. Cheesecake began to care for the shelter’s foster pups, and it’s become a true calling. “She would adopt them and she’d sleep with them and eat with them, and she’d discipline them too if they were naughty,” says sanctuary founder Janice Wolf.







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10 thoughts on “Hamster Dog Loves Real Dogs

  1. Duckie ? May 26, 2017 / 1:17 pm

    I want a capybara!

  2. Emsthemonster May 26, 2017 / 1:36 pm

    Aaaw, a puppybara!

    • allein ? May 26, 2017 / 2:18 pm

      Yasss!!

  3. fkaWaldenPond May 26, 2017 / 1:56 pm

    You know life is good when both ‘Hamster Dog’ and ‘Danger Noodle’ are used in back to back posts.

  4. allein ? May 26, 2017 / 2:17 pm

    Who are you to say Hamster Dog isn’t a real dog?!

    Off topic, but you know how when you slow down to gawk at an accident it’s called rubbernecking? If you slow down to gawk at a family of baby geese with their mama in the grass, would that be called goosenecking?

    • Murray C. May 26, 2017 / 2:49 pm

      Good one, Allein.

      Capybaras are related to Guinea pigs, so I think of them more as Guinea pig dogs – tho’ I have to admit that doesn’t come trippingly off the tongue as hamster dog.

    • Duckie ? May 26, 2017 / 2:58 pm

      So…ha ha ha…so, if you slow down to look at a giraffe, is that necknecking?

  5. Faye May 26, 2017 / 2:54 pm

    I love Cheesecake. And the Cappy too.
    Love how they swim like submarines.

  6. sugitomo May 27, 2017 / 2:03 pm

    Redonk! Makes me love capybaras even more.

  7. Starfish May 27, 2017 / 6:25 pm

    Mommydom knows no species.

    This actually isn’t the first time we’ve seen Cheesecake! I did some searching and she turned up in a Links post from the end of March.

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