A dog named Leon has become the “stepfather” of two newborn Bengal tiger cubs, whose mother had abandoned them at the zoo in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany.

The cubs, named Peach and Pearl, were facing death, but the inspector of the zoo took them to her home, where her loyal friend, 6-year-old Leon the dog, came to her aid, reported Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper of Germany.