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For his eleventh birthday, Davis' parents got him a kitten. She was a beautiful calico and Davis named her speckles. She had a litter box and that he cleaned every night before he went to bed. There were three bowls on the kitchen floor, one for food, one for water, and one for cream. He changed these each night after he changed the litter box. Speckles would sleep with him at night and follow him around during the day. Davis would scratch her and give her scraps of his meals. Every Friday night she got tuna fish for dinner, instead of the regular dried cat food. He loved her with a passion he had never felt for anything before and he spent all of his spare time playing with her.

Four months after his birthday he took her out into the woods to an old rock he had found. He then tied her to the rock with her chest facing upwards. He did a remarkably good job of this; Speckles only managed to scratch him once. He then took out the old pocketknife he had found in the garage and began to dissect her.

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