Fishy's Kitten Contest

In May five of Fishy's female nieces ( Anita, Betsy, May, Samantha andTabatha ) came to visit for his annual beautiful kitten contest. Each of his cousins had a different last name ( Anderson, Buel, Fitch, Worl, and Zenner ), and each brought a different kitten ( Bootsy, Jocko, Midnight, Mitsy, and Willy ), two of which were female ( Bootsy and Mitsey ). Each kitten liked a different kind of food ( beef, chicken, duck, sardines, and tuna ), two of which were fish ( sardines and tuna ), and each liked to play with a different toy( ball, mousekins, ribbon, slipper, and yarn). Fishy declared all the kittens a tie for the winner and gave trophy to each. Can you match each cousin with her surname, her kitten's name, the type of toy the kitten liked to play with and the kind of food the kitten liked?

1) Fishy's niece Surnamed Worl brought in a male kitten. Betsy's kitten was either the one who played with the yarn or the one who played with the ribbon. The one male kitten who liked fish ate Tuna. May's surname was neither Anderson nor Worl.

2) Anderson was not the surename of the girl whose male kitten tugged the pink ribbon through the grass. Midnight did not eat chicken nor play with the yarn. Samantha who owned a male kitten was not surnamed Buel or Worl. The ball and the toy Mousekins belonged to male kittens, but not to Tabatha or the girl surnamed Fitch.

3) Samantha who's surname is Zenner is not the owner of Jocko, nor is Betsy. Midnight ( who did not belong to Tabatha or May ) liked beef. The kitten who played with the ball liked either beef or tuna. Betsy served fish to her kitten. May who's surname is Fitch served fish to her kitten.

4) Jocko did not pay with mousekins or the ball. The person surnamed Buel rode to Fishy's with Betsy and the owner of Midnight. The girl surnamed Zenner rode to Uncle Fishy's with the girl whose cat liked tuna. Anita did not give her kitten the Mousekins to play with.

5) Neither the kitten who played with the yarn nor the one who played with the ribbon had chicken or duck. A female kitten had chicken.  The person surnamed Anderson did not own Bootsy.

Solution

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