Scarlett the cat was a former stray cat from Brooklyn, New York - probably born in summer 1995 - whose efforts to save her kittens from a fire, at serious harm to herself, attracted worldwide media attention and has been related in a number of non-fiction books. She has also become one of the animals featured by the shelter which treated her and her kittens, the North Shore Animal League, in its fund-raising and public relations efforts.
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Scarlett the cat was a former stray cat from Brooklyn, New York - probably born in summer 1995 - whose efforts to save her kittens from a fire, at serious harm to herself, attracted worldwide media attention and has been related in a number of non-fiction books. She has also become one of the animals featured by the shelter which treated her and her kittens, the North Shore Animal League, in its fund-raising and public relations efforts.
On October 15, 2008, the League announced that Scarlett had died.
Scarlett's sire and dam are unknown. She was probably born in June or July 1995. Female domestic cats are fertile from six months of age; their gestation period is about two months. As a stray cat, Scarlett probably had her first litter at about eight months old. If the kittens were her first litter, she was probably about nine months old, the equivalent of the early teens, when she became a heroine.
On March 30, 1996, Scarlett was in an abandoned garage allegedly used as a crack house...
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