Posted on 11/01/2013 11:16:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A tender cat that had just given birth gave her owners a bit of a shock when she was found to not only to be nursing her kittens, but a squirrel too.
According to her owner – a Redditor who posted the incredible pictures online – the adult cat had only given birth one day before she brought in the ‘shivering and breathing squirrel’ which had ‘no signs of a mother.’
‘We took him inside and called the vet. He said that if our cat had just given birth, there’s a very high chance she would care for the squirrel without a second thought. And that is exactly what she did,’ the Redditor explained.
The Good Samaritan cat didn’t stop there, however, as she went out two days later and ‘came back from under the porch with another one.’
Alongside her kittens she placed the second new creature with the first.
The litter reportedly all sleep together in their home on a farm, and the youngster is even sometimes carried around in the mouth of its new mum just like one of her own.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
I would rather spend time with animals than with other people.
Pets are far more loyal and loving.
LOL. What?
Kitty is a better mother than some hoomins.
Thank you for a lovely story. I needed a feel happy story today. I think the world is going to heck in a hand basket then I see a story like this and I can get through the day .
You’re very welcome. I love interspecies buddy stories.
Yep.
Priceless and adorable!
Yep, this is often true.
The cat’s instincts in over-drive. I had two cat’s give birth to two litters at almost the same time and they would steal each other’s kittens from the other’s litter to get all motherly..Cool story though.
The last litter my tortie had produced five kittens, only two of which looked anything alike (both were orange tabbies; one of them only lived about 12 hours). The only thing we can say about their parentage with certainty is that the black kitten must have had a black daddy. That one was female, as were all of the kittens except the two orange tabbies.
It’s possible for each kitten in a litter to be sired by a different tom. Unspayed female cats are sluts. :)
Why didn’t you ever get her fixed.
I got her fixed as soon as the kittens were weaned. She was a stray we took in, and she was already pregnant at the time.
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