<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of Mother Nature Network at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/kittens-survive-coyote-attack-find-new-home">http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/kittens-survive-coyote-attack-find-new-home</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="page_node_title node_nid_183675" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; height: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kittens survive coyote attack, find new home</span></font></h1></div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Orphaned after their mother died while protecting them from a coyote, four starving kittens were rescued and nursed back to health by the CATS Cradle Shelter in Fargo, N.D. Now all four kittens have been adopted together and are learning their way around their new home.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Found beside their mother’s body in July, the kittens were just 4 weeks old and in poor condition.</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; ">"We were pretty stunned by the condition that they were in — they were emaciated and hair was falling out, which is a sign of starvation, so we immediately took them," shelter director Gail Ventzke told </span><a href="http://www.kvrr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15199&Itemid=57" target="_blank" class="external" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-left; ">K</a>VRR<span style="text-align: -webkit-left; ">. "They should be bouncy, furry, happy little kittens and they look like mice, and they were just so small."</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The smallest of the kittens was Daisy, a tiny kitten with bulging eyes and thinning fur who weighed less than 6 ounces. At her age, Daisy should have weighed more than a pound.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The "coyote kittens," as they came to be known, were put on a special diet to help them gain weight. Shelter workers said the foursome were messy eaters and that Daisy often looked like she’d taken a swim in her formula.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the time they reached 11 weeks of age, Daisy and her siblings were unrecognizable as the emaciated kittens CATS Cradle had taken in. She’s still the smallest of the litter, but Daisy is healthy and continues to put on weight. At her 11-week weigh-in she was 1.54 pounds.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During their recovery, the coyote kittens found new friends in foster mom Lori Lang and her English sheepdog, Romeo, who "stepped up to surrogate parent the little orphans."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it looks like they’ve found a permanent home with Romeo and the rest of the Lang family.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; ">CATS Cradle recently made a Facebook update </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; ">saying, "They will be sharing their home with their foster canine brother Romeo forever. Lori and her husband have decided that they just cannot part with them and they are now officially adopted."</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; ">---------------</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><img src="cid:732B844B-5B11-46F8-B5C3-DE403162D4E0" alt="kittens_0.jpg" id="732B844B-5B11-46F8-B5C3-DE403162D4E0" width="530" height="336"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><img src="cid:4C4B5B12-05B8-404E-9012-3739BC6C1023" alt="daisy.jpg" id="4C4B5B12-05B8-404E-9012-3739BC6C1023" width="330" height="300"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><img src="cid:A955270D-5E40-4432-B412-5C91B3668A67" alt="daisy2.jpg" id="A955270D-5E40-4432-B412-5C91B3668A67" width="300" height="330"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>