About a million years ago - my fiancee at the time had a "rescue" dog we named "Ugly" (I don't remember how we named it that).
At one point Ugly was in heat and looking for a mate. We thought we had contained her in the house and the yard, but one day when Lynette came home she found Ugly sitting on the front porch.
A few days later we were convinced she was pregnant. The pregnancy proceeded pretty normally, except that the birthing finally became much overdue. We took her to the vet and the vet said she had a "false" pregnancy. You'd never know it by looking at her.
That evening a neighbor's cat across the street gave birth to a litter of about six or seven kittens. A couple days later the mother cat was hit by a car as she ran across the street. She died from her injuries.
The next day the neighbor brought the box of kittens to Lynette and asked her to watch them while she went to work. Sometime that day, Ugly found the box of kittens, took them each to the floor of her favorite closet and began to nurse them. She adopted them as her own pups and her life saving milk surely helped them all adopt her as their mother "cat".
None of our friends that didn't see it would believe us when we told them, and I am sure that remains true today.
That was a good ole dog.
Awwww. Thanks for that one.
Your dog was fortunate to find kittens.
She may have had to mother rocks instead.