On Cuthbert and Agatha's one-week birthday, their foster mom, that's me, Lisa Wahl, was scheduled to be at the Eugene Petsmart Cat Room as an Adoption Counselor.  West Coast Dog and Cat Rescue provides Adoption Conselors there 11-3, every weekend, Saturday and Sunday.  Since The Kids still needed to be fed every 2 hours, I brought them with me, along with bottles, a heating pad, an extension cord for the heating pad and supplies for cleaning them.  Nothing like traveling light, although the two kittens together still weighed less than a pound.

All the cat room's resident cats were out, including Cougar, 4 female adult cats and 1 male.  When the kittens cried, they all noticed, but Cougar was the one who was most interested, coming up to their carrier and seeming to look in.  Well, I thought, let's see what will happen if she meets them.

I opened the carrier door and Cougar immediately went in and started washing them.  The actual bottle-feeding of kittens isn't really the hard part compared to keeping them clean.  So if Cougar was willing to do that for me, I had it made.  So, I got permission to take her home with me.

I thought this was a sweet story, and I always love to take pics of my fosters and send to my friends, so I emailed Cougar and Kids pics all around.  And my friends emailed to their friends and so on and so on, and some of the people hearing about them worked for tv and newspapers.  So, we got on the local tv news and newspapers, and the story was picked up by national media, and that's probably how you found this page.