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 My grandmother used to have two cats who were pregnant at the same time. The day came when Princess made my grandmother a great grandmother by giving birth to five kittens.

 One of the kittens was a gray, fluffy beautiful little thing. We named it Smokey. Another kitten was a beautiful black, fluffy little mite named Sambo. Another kitten was calico colored. We ended up giving "Cal" to the neighbors.

 Then there was a skinny, sleek black kitten that we named "Little Suzy."

 When the kittens were only babies we kept them (and their mothers) in a cage outside that was up off the ground (but the adult cats were free to come and go because we kept the door to the cage open). I never really knew what happened to the other cat's babies (we called her "Nurse Jane" because she helped take care of her sister's kittens).

 One day I looked in the cage and didn't see "Little Suzy" anywhere. My grandmother happened to look in the corner of the cage and there was "Little Suzy" perched on top of the water container!

 Suzy liked to run out in front of us, but when she ran it was sideways. When it came time to put the cats in the cage for the night, Suzy was the one that caused the most trouble. She would crouch down and just dare us to catch her.

 When we made an attempt to grab at her she would take off running - sideways as usual.