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Date Posted: 22:35:53 05/23/02 Thu
Author: Drummond
Subject: Right out of Isaiah

**SEE, we CAN all get along.**

By Kara McConnell
Sentinel Reporter Apr. 20, 2002

Cheryl Raudabaugh of Silver Spring Township couldn't believe what she saw when she came across her cat, Calico, in her flower bed.

Like any mother cat, "Cally" had chosen the cozy, secluded spot beneath a flowering shrub to feed the four kittens she gave birth to in a garage at the home in first block of Main Street in New Kingston about three weeks ago.

Raudabaugh remembered there were three multi-colored kittens and a single white one in Cally's litter so she picked up a tiny white body expecting to see the face of a kitten.

Instead, the tiny pink eyes of an albino baby squirrel were looking back at her. Because of the animal's long, not-so-fluffy tail, she immediately thought her cat had been fostering a rat.

"I thought, 'What have you done, Cally?!'" she said.

Instead, Raudabaugh realized her cat had adopted three baby squirrels -- two gray ones and an albino one -- into her litter.

"It's amazing," she said. "I don't even know what to do."

The mother cat allowed the squirrels to nurse and licked them as she did her own kittens.

Neighbors came from across the street to see the cat with the strange litter.

"It's amazing she didn't eat the squirrels," said Susan Podlucky, who lives across the street. "You would think that would be her initial instinct instead of taking in the orphans."

Raudabaugh doesn't know why or how the oddity began but she began putting clues together immediately.

"We found a dead squirrel in our yard about 10 days ago," she said, adding it may have fallen victim to any one of the six or seven cats who live outside at their home.

She also remembered watching Cally fuss with a hole several feet off the ground in one of the trees in the yard. "I didn't know what she was doing up there."

Raudabaugh now thinks Cally was saving the baby squirrels after their mother was killed.

She's not sure what to do about the situation.

"I'm just going to let her feed them," Raudabaugh said, adding she hopes nature will take its course.

She's planning to have Cally spayed.

Her husband, Mel, hopes the other cats leave the squirrels alone.

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Replies:

Cats are strange creatures at times, -- PAUL., 20:07:58 05/24/02 Fri
- My cat rings the bells hanging on the front door to get in -- Drummond, 12:36:52 05/25/02 Sat
  - Re: My cat rings the bells hanging on the front door to get in -- sue da babe, 10:51:16 05/28/02 Tue
  - Re: My cat rings the bells hanging on the front door to get in -- sue da babe, 10:51:46 05/28/02 Tue
    - Cats are silly creatures Sue, -- PAUL., 18:38:06 05/28/02 Tue
      - Yes, dogs are ass kissers by comparison -- Drummond, 19:52:16 06/01/02 Sat