{"id":327,"date":"2011-05-11T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/myhappyplace\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-05-11T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:49:13","slug":"this-years-mother-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/myhappyplace\/2011\/05\/this-years-mother-award-goes-to.html","title":{"rendered":"This Year’s Mother Award Goes To….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning Flower<\/a> is simply the best mother cat ever. She has lovingly cared for her four kittens even though she was traumatically taken to our home in the middle of her labor. Then, a few weeks later, I added an orphaned day-old Chihuahua <\/a>to her litter and she accepted him although he growled instead of purred. We found a more ideal foster mother for Mowgli-the-pup, but this weekend three skinny, too-young kittens were dropped off at the Animal Shelter. I offered them to Morning Flower. At first she spit at them! I think the idea of seven toddlers was too much for her! An hour later, however, I peeked in to see everyone nursing. The pictures, of course, are too sweet not to share:<\/p>\n

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Morning Flower with her babies (calico) and her foster babies (white), too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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See the little arm slung over sister's shoulder? Squeeee!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a few weeks Morning Flower will be up for adoption. Her adoption fee is $50 and that includes her shots and she will be spayed. She is truly the sweetest cat ever. Would you give her a home?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tigress and Snowbell, sisters through adoption.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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