Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1916 — Cat Adopts Chickens. [ARTICLE]

Cat Adopts Chickens.

Manistee, Mich. —On the same day that several young kittens disappeared, from the home of Peter Nelson, leaving a prostrated mother cat, a hen at the same place abandoned a brood of five newly hatched chickens. Nelson placed the chickens with the cat For days the old cat has cared for the chicks with all conceivable devotion. She washes and caresses them and becomes savage when one approaches threateningly near her adopted brood