Your morning adorable: Surrogate doggy dad watches over orphaned kittens

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Submitter wg explains that these little guys are ‘two of five feral kittens who lost their mothers’; wg took them in and cared for them with the aid of a certain large dog with a fatherly instinct. He ‘loves them, and they love him,’ wg says. Now that’s the kind of story we like to hear!

For more photos of love among members of the animal kingdom (or to submit your own), check out the Four-Legged Friends album at The Times’ photo-sharing site, Your Scene.

-- Lindsay Barnett