Cute News Round-up: Dog Fathers Lion Club, ET born in Miskolc and a Sheep-Smuggling Sheepdog

In a story that might not be so cute when it ends in a flurry of blood and dreadlocks, a three-year-old puli has adopted a three-month-old lion cub at the Gyöngyös Zoo, reports the latimesblogs.latimes.com. The baby lion named "Zimba" arrived in the zoo from Italy as a gift and was separated from his mother, whom "Bogi" is trying to substitute as best as he can. And yes, the dog is male.

In other cute news - if you think alien life forms are cute - a baby guanaco, a "camelid" creature native to South America, has been born at the Miskolc Zoo. Tabloid Blikk was first to compare the big-headed creature to E.T., and we'd have to agree, although he/she/it is expected to grow up to be "elegant and fine-boned."

We also learn that a sheepdog was "apprehended" after smuggling 106 sheep across the Romanian-Hungarian border near Csanádpalota on November 22, writes mno.hu, based on an MTI report. Hungarian border guards captured the animals and determined their origin by inspecting the tags in their ears before handing dog and sheep over to Romanian authorities.

And finally, 61 trees have been planted in the town of Tamási, because that is the number of babies born in the town last year. According to mno.hu, this has been a tradition since 2006. Every fall, the trees are planted at a different location, and names of the town's young residents are written on a plaque. Who said children were bad for the environment?