 Why did the crew mind that the cave-cat had kittens?
The Blue Behemoth By LEIGH BRACKETT Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories May 1943. With Shannon's Imperial Circus, the Greatest Show in Space, plastered so thick with attachments...." I've wet-nursed Shannon's Imperial Circus around the Triangle for eleven years, and I know. "There are many towns along the Venusian frontiers where no entertainment of the— proper sort has been available. It was Gow, our zoo-man—a big, ugly son-of-a-gun from a Terran colony on Mercury. The only other one on the Triangle belongs to Savitt Brothers, and she's much smaller than Gertrude."
 One had only four legs
 They didn't perform well while they were small.  They were too dangerous to keep onboard  They had no food for more mouths to feed  One had only four legs