When a mother cat was hit by a car and killed last month in Snohomish County, Wash., north of Seattle, her four kittens were orphaned. Fortunately for them, they happened to be living in the barn belonging to Colleen and Robert Nesseth - and they had a willing surrogate mother in the form of the Nesseths' Australian shepherd, Lakota.
Lakota took an immediate interest in the kittens, whom the Nesseths brought inside in a box. She began caring for them, grooming them
and even letting them suckle (although the Nesseths aren't sure whether she's actually producing milk for them - they bottle-feed the kittens just to be sure they are fed).
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