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Beagle Adds 3 Abandoned Kittens To Her Litter Of 7 Puppies, Is Best Foster Parent Ever

Mary already had seven puppies; she didn't need to add three kittens to the mix. But that didn't stop the abandoned beagle from welcoming a quarter dozen orphaned baby animals to her thriving litter at the Pickens County Animal Shelter in Georgia, where Mary was recently dropped off -- likely because she was pregnant. But, according to the shelter's assistant director, Judy Moody, Mary appears to have been born to be a mother -- to animals of all different species, no less.

"She loves her kittens," Moody told NBC Atlanta. "I took two of them away and she had a heart attack, poor thing ... If anything, [Mary's foster behavior] has givenof the Amazon must stop now before it is too late.

The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.2 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers, located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa and Asia.