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God sometimes uses animals.
When I was about 6 years old, there was a yellow stray, cat that started hanging around our house. She was a beautiful yellow cat. The only problem was she was often pregnant.

One day around the end of May, I was sent to get the clothes out of the dryer. The washer and dryer were in the shed just behind the house. I went and got the clothes out dryer and put the clothes from the washer in the dryer. I then started back to the house with the dry clothes. Just as I stepped out the shed that yellow cat came running. She had saw what I failed to see. There about 6 feet directly in front of me was a rattle snake. This snake was just a shaking it’s rattle and it was ready to strike. Thankfully the snake was only about 1 foot long. That yellow cat went straight to the snake. She hissed and slapped at it. I quickly ran to the house and got my mom. My mom had a bad leg, so it took a few minutes to return to where the snake was. By the time we got there the snake was dead and the yellow cat was beginning to relax.

My mom sent me back in the house for some food for the cat. We used the food to get the cat to come to us. As best as we could, the cat was not exactly a tame house cat, we checked her for snake bites. Amazingly, we found none. After that we started buying cat food and setting it out daily. She was one cat that we differently wanted to stay around the house.

As time went on, that yellow cat became tamer. We started calling her Mama Yellow. She lived about 7 or 8 more years after this.