News anchor: “Emmy the cat gets my nomination for Kitty Mother of the Year. Not that Emmy doesn’t just lie around like other cats and occasionally scratch her claws on something you wish she wouldn’t, but there arose a situation around the time she had her kittens that Emmy has stepped up to the plate and helped solve. Well, she’s taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table, along with the rest of the kittens!”
Jim Watkins: “She’s very protective of it. If it starts to move, she don’t like where it’s goin’, she’ll reach out and pull it back, start licking it, you know, taking care of it just like she would one of her kittens!”
News anchor: “Jim Watkins and his wife Karen, of Carthage, have helped organize Central Mississippi T.A.I.L.S.”
Jim Watkins: “It stands for Taking Animals Into Loving Shelters.”
News anchor: “And that’s how Jim and Karen got Emmy – and her extended family. Emmy’s owner lived where she couldn’t have pets, and called her vet to see what she could do with the new family.”
Karen Watkins: “I seem to be the go-to girl from my vet. Anytime someone has a cat they can’t take care of, I’m the one they call. That’s how we wound up with 18 cats and a squirrel.”
News anchor: “And the squirrel came as a gift from the sky. Just before Emmy’s owner gave her up, a baby squirrel fell out of a nest and landed in the yard. Not being able to climb a tree and put it back, the lady did the next best thing.”
Jim Watkins: “And she put the squirrel in the uh, box with the kittens and she just immediately accepted it and adopted it, started feeding it, has raised it just like hers.”
News anchor: “But if a mama cat adopting a squirrel is amazing, the ability of the baby squirrel to adapt is even more so.”
Jim Watkins: “Oh the squirrel, you can pick it up and pet it, it will start to purr just like a kitten does.” *laughs*
News anchor: “Rocky (they’ve named the squirrel) may go on and grow up always thinking it’s a cat who can just climb trees better than others. It would have to be a pet from this point on.”
Jim Watkins: “He’ll never be able to survive on his own at this point on because of the way he’s been raised. So we’ll- we’ll probably wind up with him.”
News anchor: “So the circle of adoption goes on and on: cat, to squirrel, to people. Everybody looking out for and accepting the other.”
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