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09-14-2010, 09:09 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/09/13/dnt.cat.takes.in.squirrel.WLBT?hpt=T2
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13114677
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Not that Emmy doesn't just lie around like other cats. And occasionally scratch her claws on something you wished she wouldn't. But there arose a situation around the time she had her kittens that Emmy has stepped up to the plate and helped solve. Well, she's taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table along with the rest of the kittens.
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And the squirrel came as a gift from the sky. Just before Emmy's owner gave her up, a baby squirrel fell out of a nest and landed in the yard. Not being able to climb a tree and put it back, the lady did the next best thing.
"And she put the squirrel in the box with the kittens and she just immediately accepted it and adopted it, started feeding it , has raised it just like hers," said Jim Watkins.
But if a mama cat adopting a squirrel is amazing, the ability of the baby squirrel to adapt is even more so.
"Oh the squirrel, you can pick it up and pet it and it will start to purr just like a kitten does," said Jim Watkins.
Rocky, they've named the squirrel, may go on and grow up always thinking it's a cat who can just climb trees better than others.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/09/13/dnt.cat.takes.in.squirrel.WLBT?hpt=T2
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13114677
...
Not that Emmy doesn't just lie around like other cats. And occasionally scratch her claws on something you wished she wouldn't. But there arose a situation around the time she had her kittens that Emmy has stepped up to the plate and helped solve. Well, she's taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table along with the rest of the kittens.
..
And the squirrel came as a gift from the sky. Just before Emmy's owner gave her up, a baby squirrel fell out of a nest and landed in the yard. Not being able to climb a tree and put it back, the lady did the next best thing.
"And she put the squirrel in the box with the kittens and she just immediately accepted it and adopted it, started feeding it , has raised it just like hers," said Jim Watkins.
But if a mama cat adopting a squirrel is amazing, the ability of the baby squirrel to adapt is even more so.
"Oh the squirrel, you can pick it up and pet it and it will start to purr just like a kitten does," said Jim Watkins.
Rocky, they've named the squirrel, may go on and grow up always thinking it's a cat who can just climb trees better than others.