Dog becomes mama to any kitten that doesn't have mother

I've noticed Sherry start to take on a caretaker role with the kittens with Goose and Maverick, two of our little tiny foster kittens. I put them near her on the couch and they went straight for her belly and she like laid down on her side and like opened up so they could get in there. The look on her face was like, these are my babies. I'm Jen and this is Sherry's story for GeoBeats. Did you find more babies to mother? She was in a shelter and my husband got there an hour before her scheduled euthanasia time, so we picked her up at the last second. Who's this? It took us a good year to get her to fully trust us, where she didn't want to go running into her kennel right away. She's helped us foster over 70 kittens. You can't help yourself but kiss. Sherry gives the kittens a level of comfort that they're missing because they don't have their mother. Most of the time when we're fostering kittens, we don't get the mothers alongside them, so they don't have that animal presence that they used to have with their mom, so Sherry fills that void for them. They actually are trying to nurse, even though there's no milk for them to nurse. She does come right away to the kennel when we bring the kittens in and wants to sniff. We let them out and she gives the kittens her space and she waits for them to come to her. It's gonna sound super crazy, but I honestly feel like that's what she needed when we got her. She needed space, she needed to come to us when she was ready, and I watch her do the same things with the kittens. She just kind of lays back and lets them come to her. She will let them crawl all over her face, lets them chew on her paws, on her ears. She does not mind at all. Our kittens that we take that go up for adoption have been fully socialized with dogs, which is great because that's a huge thing for some families that adopt kittens.