A tabby kitten with mallard ducklings near water under an overcast sky. 6:03
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Three ducklings follow a kitten

The walk starts near the water. A small orange tabby kitten leads the way, and three yellow ducklings line up behind her. more

Their owner shares their days online as Cat's diary, and this outing takes the four of them into the countryside. At first the ducklings sit quietly in the grass while the kitten bats at the strands around her. Then she gathers one of them up and holds the duckling close.

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In the tall grass, the kitten holds one of the ducklings close.

Then the kitten remembers she is a cat. She drops low and creeps through the grass like a hunter, and three ducklings creep right along behind her. When the little group stops, the ducklings bump into each other.

The ducklings never let themselves get far from her. She keeps checking on them, too, and for a kitten she acts very grown up about the whole thing. They seem sure she is their mother, and she doesn't argue.

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The walk starts near the water.

Down by the river, the four of them sit side by side and look out across the water, with mountains behind them. Nobody is in a hurry to go anywhere.

At some point the kitten gets wet. She sits by the water with her fur soaked and a duckling held close, the same way she held one back in the grass.

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Down by the water, the kitten is soaked and still holding a duckling close.

By the end, the ducklings have crowded in under and around her to keep warm. The little hunter holds still and lets them.

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