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A house cat in Florida named Bobbi had six kittens and then nursed two other kittens for an animal shelter. Her latest assignment: three bobcat kittens!
The baby bobcats — two females named Midnight and Rain, plus a male, Storm — will be fed by Bobbi for up to four weeks, Big Cat Rescue president Jamie Veronica said.
The kittens were given those names because “we drove through a midnight rain storm to get them,” Veronica said.
A hunter brought the kittens to a veterinary clinic in Alabama earlier this month, Baskin said. Vets said they think the hunter shot the kittens’ mother. It is legal in many states, including Florida, to hunt bobcats for sport, Baskin said.
“He walked in with a shotgun in one hand and a bag of kittens in the other,” she said.
The bobcats will be sheltered for about 18 months and then returned to the wild. Link
There’s also video and a news story of how Bobbi came to be involved. Link -via Arbroath
Halo Animal Rescue in Phoenix, Arizona confronted a tiny problem. A chihuahua puppy was left an orphan when its mother died in childbirth. Rescue worker Heather Allen called Animal Control and asked if they had any nursing mothers. All they had was a black cat with four kittens.
Knowing that without a mom the baby Chihuahua did not have long to live, Heather introduced the two. She says, “I just kind of just stuck the puppy in with the rest and hoped the mom wouldn’t notice much and she thought that was fine.”
Seven days later the baby Chihuahua, now named Liam, is still alive. Heather says, “She’s doing great, I don’t know if she’ll be litter-trained when she’s done, but she’s doing really well, she’s nursing and seems to be growing and doing great.”
(image credit: AZ Family)
Members of the Quilters of South Carolina created 49 crafty and humorous bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. These one-of-a-kind bras will be on tour till October ’09, after which they will be auctioned off to raise money for the Best Chance Network, a program that provides care and treatment for women with breast and ovarian cancers who don’t have health insurance.
This one above is aptly titled the Nursing Bra by Anne Duncan – check out the rest here: Link | Link2 – via Extreme Craft
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