<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Daily Mail (London) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558835/Dont-mess-little-sisters-Adorable-bulldog-protects-adopted-kitten-siblings.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558835/Dont-mess-little-sisters-Adorable-bulldog-protects-adopted-kitten-siblings.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-size: 1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't mess with my little sisters! Adorable bulldog protects his adopted kitten siblings<br></h1><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is the adorable bulldog who protects his beloved younger siblings - who just so happen to be cats.<br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hammie, a 1-year-old bulldog lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with owner Michelle Parden. Last year, she took in a pregnant,abandoned cat named Mommy. </font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parden, 34, saved the creature on the request of her friend Gayla Hausman, a director at charity Voice For Companion Animals. </font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms Parden said the cat had eye and respiratory problems after being abandoned but happily on Halloween, Mommy gave birth to six kittens - Pumpkin, Goblin, Frankenstein, Batman, Zombie and Elvira.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the kittens had a tough beginning due to their mother's ill health but all survived. <br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And although Mommy and their new owner were excited about the new arrivals, the biggest fan was Hammie.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adorable bond: Hammie, a one-year-old bulldog, takes care of his kitten siblings</span></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><img src="cid:5F980944-7A48-457B-93E2-253577D1D27B" alt="article-2558835-1B74369500000578-487_634x463.jpg" id="5F980944-7A48-457B-93E2-253577D1D27B" width="634" height="463"></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Friends forever: Hammie the bulldog took to caring for the kittens as soon as they were born last Halloween<br><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:2317A5E7-A7A8-403A-B574-9B1C36AEE2BD" alt="article-2558835-1B75276000000578-1000_634x327.jpg" id="2317A5E7-A7A8-403A-B574-9B1C36AEE2BD" width="634" height="327"></font></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>