We had a dark calico that got both it’s hinds caught in a muskrat trap. Sometime either just before- or if you tend to be maudlin, during- it’s captivity, it was violated by a simese. It chewed off the feet, came home dragging stumps with protruding bone shards, gave birth to a litter of little calico\/simese cats. I was studying evolution at the time, and I wondered if the kittens would be born stumpy and deformed, not understanding- yet- the causality of the evolutionary process. Anyway, the cat wouldn’t have anything to do with it’s own kittens, so our peke\/toy manchester mutt Lucky wetnursed those damned kits, and protected them with the ferocity of Cerberus. <\/p>\n
Dad later gassed the cat in a box, connected to the exhast of the Comet with a length of sump pump hose. Kittens were dead cute and adopted out easy. Lucky kept looking for them as we took them out, one by one, and when the last one was gone, she adopted a rubber cheeseburger and carried it around as her offspring, protecting it from all potential threat. <\/p>\n