Know why an Indian married a dog or a millionaire married a dolphin

New Delhi: We all love our pets. But how many of us would actually marry an animal? In fact, you would not be the first or only person to do it. From horses to frogs, check out this list of animals that married humans. Go through the pages to see the weird marriages:1. The man who married his pony In 1992, Mark Matthews married his pony named Pixel. The television personality Jerry Springer tried to unravel the mystery of these relations on his talk-show in 1998. However, he failed because talking about zoophilia seemed too outrageous for some TV directors. Therefore, the show was never broadcast. 2. The Balinese teenager who married a flirty cow Ngurah Alit, an 18-year-old Balinese teenager, was caught in the act of intercourse with a cow after claiming that it had flirted with him. So in June 2010, Alit was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony as part of a Pecaruan ritual, a ceremony to cleanse the village of the unholy act of a man mating with a cow. After that, Alit's victim and new bride was drowned in the ocean. Thankfully, Alit was just "symbolically" drowned. 3. The millionaire woman who married a dolphin In December 2005, Sharon Tendler, a 41-year-old eccentric British millionaire, married the love of her life — a dolphin named Cindy — at an Israeli resort. Sharon Tendler met Cindy 15 years earlier when she first visited the resort. Tendler took a liking to the dolphin and made a habit of traveling to Israel two or three times a year and spending time with her underwater sweetheart. After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin. 4. The Indian man who married a dog to get rid of a curse When the Indian young man Selva Kumar was 18 years old he stoned and clubbed to death two dogs he had found engaged in mating. He then hung their carcasses from a tree. That's the moment when he claims that his personal suffering began. His legs and hands became paralyzed and he lost hearing in one ear. Fifteen years later, Kumar could no longer take the physical pain of the "dog curse," so he sought the advice of an astrologer. What was the cure for his maladies? "Marry a dog." That is just what Kumar did in November 2007 with a 10-year-old female dog named "Selvi." 5. The German man who married his asthmatic cat In 2010, Uwe Mitzscherlich, a German man, wanted to tie the knot with his asthmatic cat Cecilia as soon as vets told him that she didn't have long to live. However, because marrying an animal is illegal in Germany, the 39-year-old Mitzscherlich had to stage the bizarre ceremony, which he paid an actress US$ 395 to officiate. Actress Christin-Maria Lohri asked him to say "I do" and Cecilia to say "meow" before pronouncing them man and cat-wife. 6. The 9-year-old indian girl who married a stray dog to ward off evil spirits On June 11, 2003, Karnamoni Handsa, a nine-year-old tribal girl in eastern India, married a stray dog as part of a ritual to ward off an "evil spell" on her (she had a tooth rooted to her upper gum, which is considered a bad omen by her Santhal tribe). The tribe elders said that the marriage would not affect the girl's life, and that she would be free to marry again later and did not need to divorce the dog. 7. The Sudanese man who married a goat In February 2006, Charles Tombe, a Sudanese man, was forced to take a goat as his "wife" and pay to the goat owner a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (US$75) after he was caught having sex with the animal. 8. The Australian young man who married his Labrador In December 2010, Joseph Guiso, a 20-year-old Australian man, married his best friend, a five-year-old Labrador. Joseph Guiso and Honey were "joined in matrimony" at Toowoomba's Laurel Bank Park in Australia - and the real surprise is that 30 friends and family members turned up to witness the event. Guiso calls himself "religious" and claims that he felt guilty living with Honey out of wedlock. Even so, he assured people that "it's not sexual. It's just pure love." 9. The 75-year-old Nepalese man who married a dog for luck In 2004, a 75-year-old man in Nepal married a dog in a local custom to ensure good luck. However, this doesn't seem to have worked since the old man died three days later. According to the information, he was following a custom of his Tharu community, which holds that an old man who regrows teeth must take a dog as a bride. 10. The 7-Year-old tribal Indian girls who married two frogs In January 2009, in a bizarre ritual, two seven-year-old girls from the remote Pallipudupet village in India were married to frogs. The ceremony was conducted "to prevent the outbreak of mysterious diseases in the village.'' The girls, Vigneswari and Masiakanni, dressed up in traditional bridal finery -- gilded sarees and gold jewellery -- and married the frog "princes" in separate, elaborate ceremonies at two different temples in the presence of hundreds of villagers. The ceremonies had all of the usual elements of a traditional marriage including a sumptuous feast.

Know why an Indian married a dog or a millionaire married a dolphin

New Delhi: We all love our pets. But how many of us would actually marry an animal? In fact, you would not be the first or only person to do it. From horses to frogs,

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