Ha ha, momma dove is sitting on the start of her third batch!!!! Yup, just looked out
and there she was meeting me with her, “I’m not afraid of you” look. Her two babies just left the nest on Monday……..I wonder if she’ll make it to 5 like the other dove we had did. I have to laugh, the nest she’s using is an older robins nest and it look absolutely horrible for a Robin, but momma dove must really like it, ya know compared to her usual 5 - 6 stick nest. 
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...of the male ducks' penises. Mother Nature is very strange.
Male cats have spines on their penises, and female cats do not ovulate until the act of mating. If a female mates with more than tomcat, you can get a litter with different fathers, hence the potpourri look of many litters of kittens. We have a brother-sister pair of Siamese cats whose mom was a tortoise shell.
My husband was once telling a friend about male cats, and the friend said he was going to tell his teenage daughter that teenage boys were made the same way - 