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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Glad they made it---lovely little kittens! I have a
dear friend who says "As long as a cat's spitit is in the same room as the
bones, you can bring 'em back with love and care". I think she is
right!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:20
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Caturday (November
17, 2012)</DIV>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Courtesy of Mother Nature Network
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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>
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class="page_node_title node_nid_183675"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="">Kittens
survive coyote attack, find new home</SPAN></FONT></H1></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">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>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Found beside their mother’s body in
July, the kittens were just 4 weeks old and in poor
condition.</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN>"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
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target=_blank>K</A>VRR<SPAN>. "They should be bouncy, furry, happy little
kittens and they look like mice, and they were just so
small."</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">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>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">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>
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style="">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>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">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>
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style="">And it looks like they’ve found a permanent home with Romeo and the
rest of the Lang family.</SPAN></DIV>
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style=""><SPAN>CATS Cradle recently made a Facebook update
</SPAN><SPAN>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>
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<DIV>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
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