A teacher is discussing biology to her third-grade students.

A teacher is discussing biology with her third-grade students. She argues that stuttering is unique to humans. A young girl in the back raises her hand and says “No ma’am, I had a cat who stuttered.”

The teacher, understanding how valuable these stories may be, urged her to clarify. The small girl stood up and said, “Well, we had this big tabby cat that liked to annoy the rottweiler next door and one day the rottweiler got loose and jumped the fence.”She proceeded, “My cat yelled fff, fff, fff, but before she could finish, a rottweiler ate her.