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3-Year-Old Dog Nurses Stray Kitten [Awwwwww! Alert]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/9/07 | AP

Posted on 07/09/2007 8:04:18 PM PDT by TFFKAMM

(07-09) 15:05 PDT Victoria, Texas (AP) --

By all accounts, Tahoe is a typical kitten: cute, sleepy and hungry. But his eating habits are far from typical, as the stray's been nursing from a 3-year-old dog named Lillie.

Ever since the kitten was found under the hood of Eunice Collins' running Chevrolet Tahoe a few weeks ago, he's been feeding from the unusually cooperative longhaired dachshund. Tahoe feeds in the morning, at night and after naps, purring and pawing at the dog's belly.

"That's not going to happen very often," said veterinarian John Beck, who added that the "kitten got lucky, basically" that he found a dog with those maternal instincts.

Collins said she was confused by the sound of a kitten meowing as she drove her Tahoe.

"I thought I was going crazy," Collins said. "I came to a light and heard it again. So I pulled into a gas station."

Collins took the kitten in and kept him in a bedroom. Four days later, she saw Lillie feeding him.

"I couldn't believe it," she said. "She has just taken Tahoe on as her baby and has been nurturing and taking care of him. They're just very close..."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animals; cat; chatroom; doggieping; kitty; kittyping; pets; texas
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To: al baby

Yes, I remember that old paddle steamer pimped up as a restaurant. Had a birthday party there once. And never you mind how old I am!


21 posted on 07/09/2007 9:09:00 PM PDT by SatinDoll
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To: flashbunny

Last time I stop you from drilling a hole through your head.


22 posted on 07/09/2007 9:10:05 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: TFFKAMM

They hadn’t been supervising contact between the dog and the kitten? Ooh, that kitty was fortunate.


23 posted on 07/09/2007 9:17:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: TFFKAMM
Beck said[,] "Now, I'm sure the cat obviously had it in mind the dog was (his) mother."

Will the kitten begin to bark? Will it start burying bones? Gotta know....

24 posted on 07/09/2007 9:20:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: TFFKAMM

That is so sweet. I bet that dog and cat will be best friends for the rest of their lives.


25 posted on 07/09/2007 9:20:50 PM PDT by Pinkbell (I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
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To: TFFKAMM
Living proof that dogs ain't as smart as they look!!

< sarcasm tag >
(don't everybody get their panties in a wad...)
26 posted on 07/09/2007 9:27:26 PM PDT by djf (Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
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To: TFFKAMM
Well, when I found K.C. screeching in the kudzu, I didn't have a serrogate dog to bring him home to ... he wasn't old enough to have been weened and the car in front of me had thrown him from the window into the kudzu parch and sped off, possibly to 'sow' some more kittens. I stopped and got him into my car. When I got him back to my condo and gave him a flea bath and towel dry, he curled up beside my leg on the sofa and began 'nursing' on the tip of his tail. I fed him with an eye dropper for a few days until he learned to lap from a saucer.

Interestingly, he grew up to have a very long tail and continued to suckle on it even in adulthood. The purring was a most soothing sound at night or if I took a nap on the sofa. K.C. stood for kudzu cat. When I built my current house, K.C. took up with a Mockingbird and they could be seen wandeirng the farm fields during the day. ... I lost little K.C. a few years back to a speeding car down on the road by my house; K.C. learned to chase a tennis ball when he was little and I surmise he was chasing a big ol' greenish walnut frshly dropped fromt he tree by the driveway when he was hit. Loved that little cat too much. He lived six years. I expect to see him again, in Heaven someday

Sorry about that downer, folks. I'll get back up on the porch now.

27 posted on 07/09/2007 9:32:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
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To: al baby
I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wienerdog,
A wienerdog is what I'd like to be.
'Cause if I was an Oscar Meyer wienerdog,
Then ev'ryone could take a bite of me.

< };^)

28 posted on 07/10/2007 4:33:45 AM PDT by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: Erasmus
Hot dogs. Armour hot dogs.
What kind of dogs are Armour hot dogs?
Fat dogs, skinny dogs, dogs that p*$$ on rocks.
Tough dogs, sissy dogs, even dogs with chicken pox*,
Are hot dogs...Armour hot dogs,
The dogs kids love to beat!

(Sung to my pack of standard and miniature dachshunds, pointing at a dog when the line that described him/her was reached in the song. Weiner dogs look so cute when they are trying to puzzle out just what their crazy human is doing to them THIS time.)

*works for dapple dachshunds.

29 posted on 07/10/2007 7:01:37 AM PDT by Verloona Ti
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To: TFFKAMM

Awwwww...I just wanted to read a cute dog story. Had no idea it was about the cutest of all dog breeds, a miniature dachshund!


30 posted on 07/10/2007 7:02:53 AM PDT by Verloona Ti
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To: flashbunny

!!dogs and cats living together!!
Gozer’s on the loose...


31 posted on 07/10/2007 7:08:31 AM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: MHGinTN

It’s just uncanny how these little varmints can worm their way right into your heart. : }


32 posted on 07/10/2007 7:11:27 AM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: SatinDoll

about a month, the Reuben E. Lee will be gone, its wood and steel recycled, its Victorian chandeliers and oak doors auctioned off, and the museum somewhat richer from the salvage operation.

In recent days, a few folks meandered into the parking lot and simply stared. It was their way of saying goodbye to a vessel whose last incarnation was as the Pride of Newport.


33 posted on 07/10/2007 7:41:07 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: TFFKAMM

This brings back bad memories of the cats that used to crawl up in our old car to get warm and then got caught in the fan belt when we started it up.


34 posted on 07/10/2007 7:47:05 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: al baby
Hey Sandy do you remember the ruben e lee in newport ?

Yep, I do. I always meant to have dinner there but never quite got around to it before I moved. Is it still there?

35 posted on 07/10/2007 8:10:52 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
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To: SandyInSeattle

no

about a month, the Reuben E. Lee will be gone, its wood and steel recycled, its Victorian chandeliers and oak doors auctioned off, and the museum somewhat richer from the salvage operation.

In recent days, a few folks meandered into the parking lot and simply stared. It was their way of saying goodbye to a vessel whose last incarnation was as the Pride of Newport.


36 posted on 07/10/2007 8:12:29 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: al baby

Oh, wow, that’s too bad. It was a fixture down there.


37 posted on 07/10/2007 8:20:39 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
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To: SandyInSeattle

I ate there with my grand mom in the 70 s


38 posted on 07/10/2007 8:31:37 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: TFFKAMM

Good Dog!!!


39 posted on 07/10/2007 8:33:17 AM PDT by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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