The genuine friendship that can develop between different animals never ceases to affect the owner afresh each time as a very special experience. There are many examples involving cats. The innumerable cases of friendship between dog and cat will be related in detail later in this book. Even friendship between cats a great variety of birds are by no means uncommon. All this is simply a matter of habit, and the right training – there is nothing unnatural about it. In the Magdeburg Zoo, there is nearly always a cat in the breeding section, which will from time to time take over as a wet-nurse for raising other breeds. She is on such trusting terms with all the different birds that are kept there, that they quite literally hop about on her head. Cats have even been known to foster mice and rats, while continuing go hunt mice and rats living wild – this, too, is not unusual. There are known cases of cats having reared martens, squirrels, skunks, hedgehogs and many other animals.
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