It's the darndest thing! I had just gotten through feeding Spike and had him on my lap. Fawn jumped on the bed and immediately started cleaning him! She kept trying to grab him by the nap of the neck. So I decided to let her go and see what she'd do.
Lo and behold, she grabbed him by the neck ever so gently, and took him to the closet in the spare bedroom and started cleaning him again. I had set up a little bed in there for her when she first came to my house.
I am so bewildered by this! I really think that she is his baby! When she first came to my house, she had just been spayed. I never knew what happened, whether she actually HAD her babies, or was pregnant when they spayed her.
When I go to the shelter today (Kathy is going to kittysit for him for 5 days) I'm going to do a little investigating. I'm not totally SURE if he's her baby, and maybe it's just the maternal instinct in her. But to watch her "mother" him had me convinced!
I'll let you know what I find out.
Sorry, couldn't get any pictures. The camera was at the other end of the apartment.
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