Show AS substitute FOR KITTENS beaded Be aved cat adopter adopted and tenderly cared for a family of squirrels last spring a cat on the farm of albert fisher near Wat waterville erville N Y had several small kittens As the farm was overstocked over stocked with cats her young were taken from her wid and drowned drowne d after that the cat seemed very uril unhappy lap and being a house favorite she received considerable sympathy one day shortly after her kittens were taken from her a young squirrel which had fallen from its nest neat in the hollow of a tree was found and taken to the cat with the idea that it would be a dainty morsel to tempt her appetite instead of pouncing upon it cat fabb fashion she took the young squirrel to the box where she had so recently mothered her own young and there bestowed upon the squirrel all the affection she had previously given to her lifite kittens ns stranger still says a writer in country life in america in about two hours the old cat had hunted out the squirrels nest in the tree some distance away and carried the remainder of the young squirrels in her mouth one at a time to her box in the house then until the squirrels were nearly full grown the cat watched over them with all the solicitude that Is possible for any animal mother to show even providing nourishment for them in exactly the same manner that she had for her own young when the squirrels had outgrown a mothers attention they were very tame and were given to fra fr 1 th t fily f ily |