Posted on 07/22/2013 11:12:46 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Animal control officers in Anderson, S.C., thought that a barking shih tzu was stuck in a ravine. Turns out, she was there nursing and protecting a tiny abandoned kitten she had found.
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A lot of female animals really have the instinct very strongly. Our calico cat was spayed as a kitten yet when we brought home two 10 week old kittens, she started mothering them as if they were her own. The boys are 6 years old now and one grew up but the other still acts like a tiny kitten around her, right down to trying to nurse and accepting her grooming submissively.
(Yes, I know adult kitties groom each other as well, but the body language between two adults and mother and kitten is very different; he’s in “kitten mode”.)
What is kitty propaganda doing on the doggie ping list?
:)
Add to the list of headlines you’ll never see:
“Cat finds a tiny puppy; risks everything to save her”
;)
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