Little Bit and Babe each had several litters of kittens a year, usually as many as three. And each litter invariably contained five kittens, usually white like their mothers.
One year a pack of dogs roamed the neighborhood where Mama M lived; no one claimed them and no one could or would fence them in. Animal services were not even successful in nabbing them.
Mama M saw Little Bit's five babies under the bushes beside the carport one afternoon, petted them, and began to plan how she would find homes for them.
That night, from inside where she was grading student papers, she heard the wild dogs bark and the kittens yelp. She rushed to throw open the kitchen door and chase the dogs away. Too late. They had batted down and killed all five balls of fur, in Mama M's most horrible experience of nurturing cats.
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