How the kitten I smuggled home got turned into a dog

Metaphorically speaking, the cat turned into a dog. 
In last week’s column about my love of newspapers, I wrote that I had once smuggled home a kitten from day camp even though my mother was afraid of cats.
A community of feline parents last no time in asking an important question. What happened to the kitty that I hid in a newspaper-lined box? 
Here’s the scoop:
My mother, born and raised in a small apartment in the Bronx, didn’t know from house pets. But she was par