"Its your kitten"
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63252)
United States
November 21, 2009 4:58pm CST
My brother was with his wife to be for about a year before they married.
She had a lovely brown and white Springer Spaniel that was very well trained.
Bandit, the dog, had not, however, been spayed.
She was always going thru heat and false pregnancies.
One day, after not having a litter of puppies, my brother and his soon to be wife were having a party.
Into the middle of this party came Bandit, carrying an orange kitten.
Now, this was a really smart dog.
She came to my brother and put the kitten down at his feet and looked up at him with her big Spaniel eyes.
He said to her "You'll have to ask your Mother."
Bandit picked up the kitten and carried her over to her owner. Put the kitten down and looked up at her mom with those big Spaniel eyes.
"T" looked down and then told her that she'd have to ask her father.
Bandit picked up the kitten, once again, and carried it back to my brother and put it down and again turned those Spaniel eyes on him.
Needless to say, by this time the whole party is watching, and laughing, over this.
My brother told her. "Okay, Bandit, you can keep the kitten, but he's your responsibility, you have to take care of him."
At that point Bandit picked up the kitten, carried him over to her bed and gave him a bath (remember, Spaniels have "wet" mouths so I'm sure that kitten looked a sight at that point!)
I always tell this story and say that the kitten, Riley he was named, was her "false puppy." She had a false pregnancy, false labor and had a false puppy.
That did seem to break the cycle and the next year she did actually get pregnant and have a litter of puppies. "T" got her spayed after that.
And that's the story of my brother's ex's dog and her false puppy.
you ever have a dog adopt another species of animal?
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28 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
21 Nov 09
awwwww, what a sweet story. i have never had a dog that adopted another pet.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
22 Nov 09
[b]
??? I bathed him! He only needed the one! 
Maggiepie
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??? I bathed him! He only needed the one!
Maggiepie
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
21 Nov 09
awwwwwwwwwwww...now that is just too good, Elic. Poor Bandit just wanted a baby of her own to care for and figured the kitten will have to do. People don't give animals the credit they deserve. I had a Lab Retriever that was always bringing me sick and/or injured animals to fix. Squirrels, birds, rabbits, etc..small animals. He would set the animals down gently at my feet and give me that soulful look to make them all better. Never knew when he was gonna turn up with yet another animal I would have to bury when he wasn't around.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
22 Nov 09
Hey Elic! What an absolutely adorable story! I can just picture
that sweet little Spaniel carrying that poor little kitten
back and forth and everyone laughing! I think that is so sweet
how animals are so willing to take on other species with such
ease! They are alot smarter then some humans are! And they
think that people can't learn tricks from their animals!
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@chantalgiardina (2523)
• United States
22 Nov 09
I have never heard fo a story quite like yours. That is the most adorable thing ever. I have never seena ny animal adopt another but this would ahve been sooo cute to see.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
22 Nov 09
I'm rolling with laughter at this story! Did Bandit still love the kitten as much after her own puppies were born?
My niece has a bird that loves to talk. They also have a yorkie. The bird acts like she's mother to the dog. Though Gizmo is too big for the bird to pick up, she will sit on her perch and tell Gizmo what to do. "Take the food back to the kitchen", "Get off the chair" "Stop barking" All things that Samantha and Shane have said to Giz.
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@BarBaraPrz (45579)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Nov 09
When I was about 10 or 11, a cat had kittens in the neighbor's garage. I'm not sure what happened to "momma", but the neighbor's collie would keep watch over them and herd them if they wanted to roam. (That dog also liked to climb up on the doghouse roof... no, not named Snoopy.)
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Nov 09
when we had our own house we got a puppy of mixed breed and took her home and she then adopted a stray black kitten someone had dumped in our yard. We had had the puppy spayed but she still seemed to have a mother instinct as she licked the kitten and they slept together. as they grew up they stayed friends and midnight still slept curled up by Swap our dog. Swap mourned when someone accidently ran over Midnight. the cat was killed instantly and the driver went right on down the street and disappeared. the car was old and didn't even have a license plate on its back. no way to id.the driver.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
22 Nov 09
[b]Nope. But then, how many dogs have I had or known? (Hint: I don't need more than one hand to count them...
)
Anyway, even though I've heard this story before, it still makes me laugh whever you tell it! (And you call yourself "boring." Tsk! 
)
Maggiepie
WHERE ARE any OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?!?[/b]
)
Anyway, even though I've heard this story before, it still makes me laugh whever you tell it! (And you call yourself "boring." Tsk! )
Maggiepie
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
22 Nov 09
[b]I just flashed on a memory--my youngest aunt's German Shepherd b1tch, Raksha, who was golden with a black saddle--took up with a youngish cat (5 or 6 months, maybe) some (censored! 
) twit had dumped on Gramma's farm. (That happened all too often...
.
The kitty was a brindle calico, & looked so much like Raksha's coloring that when she curled up in her big friend's embrace, you couldn't tell where Raksha ended & the kitty began!
I think Raksha needed a baby, as she was never fixed, nor allowed to breed. I'm sure Gramma thought she could,'t afford to feed a bunch of large dogs, & wasn't cozy with most of the people in the closest town, & might be stuck with any litters. I do know she wouldn't have had money to neuter any animals.
Thanks for sparking that ancient memory.
Maggiepie
WHERE ARE any OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?!?[/b]
) twit had dumped on Gramma's farm. (That happened all too often....
The kitty was a brindle calico, & looked so much like Raksha's coloring that when she curled up in her big friend's embrace, you couldn't tell where Raksha ended & the kitty began!
I think Raksha needed a baby, as she was never fixed, nor allowed to breed. I'm sure Gramma thought she could,'t afford to feed a bunch of large dogs, & wasn't cozy with most of the people in the closest town, & might be stuck with any litters. I do know she wouldn't have had money to neuter any animals.
Thanks for sparking that ancient memory.
Maggiepie
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
22 Nov 09
[b]I'm sure that was part of Raksha's reasons. She was a very sweet fur-person.
Maggiepie
WHERE ARE any OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?!?[/b]
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@commanderxo (1494)
• Canada
22 Nov 09
That's wild. Hehehehe.
Back on my uncle's farm (when I was just a tad), the old male Golden Lab adopted one of the piglets. Although that crazy old coot of a pooch wouldn't hurt a fly, he'd never let you get near his bed, when sleeping with and/or caring for, that wee little pig. I can still remember seeing him fuss over that tiny sweet animal.
What ticked me off about it though, was that my uncle gave ME the responsibility of looking after the little guy...however, somehow I lost out to the dog getting in there first. Being 5 years old did have its disadvantages when it came to dogs being bigger than I. Mind you, the dog and the pig grew to become the best of friends.
cdrxo
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
23 Nov 09
That is a really nice story and I thank you for sharing.
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What I'm wondering is, where did she get the kitten???
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
23 Nov 09
I have always had cats because i really love cats..I have two now, one is a baby & then i have one that is about 10 years old and he is very smart too..This little kitten is always getting into tight places & she cannot get out...If i open a closet door she runs in and sometimes i do not see her, so my older cat will go sit by where she is and stare at me until i come to the kittens aid...The other day the kitten got hung up in a coke a cola box, she jumped in the box & it flipped over trapping her inside , so the older cat he went over there & was chewing that box to try to get her out....When his water thing gets empty he pulls it by his teeth & lays it by my feet...He has always been a fun cat...I think this baby is going to be a little trooper too, maybe a little tomboy...
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@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
23 Nov 09
When our water bowl is empty, Nef or Tuti will knock it into the middle of the room. I really don't know which, but I've seen them both messing with the bowl and they came together so it might be a "tag team" effort - its a really big bowl and sometimes it isn't completely empty - yet!
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
23 Nov 09
That sounds so cute,and I'm just picturing this bewildered looking kitten wondering what was going on while being carried around from one person to another like that! So is Riley still a part of this Family?
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
24 Nov 09
my old afghan hound attempted to "adopt" the neighbor's pet rabbits when they got loose.unfortunetly for him,they weren't into it.
he wouldn't have hurt them but they didn't know that.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
22 Nov 09
i have heard of it. what im wondering is how the kitten survived? thats very cute. i know dogs do and understand so many things that sometimes its like they are human only much nicer then humans if you ask me. sometimes its like my dog can read my mind.
