Many, many years ago and on a very late evening and after she closed down Carlson’s Hut ( where she was manager) she was in LaSalle,CO waiting for a train to pass so she could cross the tracks to get to her apartment - she spotted a very young “dark markings” kitten ( in the blackness of night) in the middle of the road. She carefully gathered the kitty up and took it home…the next day taking kitty to the vet. The kitty was probably only a week old. She kept the kitty and raised it with lotsa love. She had a big heart for animals.💖