Show AS substitute FOR KITTENS bereaved cat adopted and tenderly cared for a family of squirrels last spring a cat on the farm of 0 albert fisher near N Y had several small kittens As the farm was overstocked over stocked with cats her young were taken from her and drowned after that the cat seemed very unhappy 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 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 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 kittens stranger still says a writer in country life in america in about two hours the old cat had hunted out tho th 2 squirrels relps n nest est in the tree some distance away and carried the remainder of the young squirrels icher in her mouth one at a time to her box in the house then until the ahe 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 youe when the squirrels had outgrown a mothers attention they were very tame and were given to of th |