Older kittens may not be friendly and may scratch or bite you if startled or scared. If the kittens are truly orphaned and you decide to care for them, Pasadena Humane Society can help. We got you, boo! DO keep the kittens separated from your pets to prevent fights and minimize the transmission of disease and parasites. Be sure your pet cats are up to date on their vaccines.
To help break the cat-overpopulation cycle spay or neuter! We will happily assist you in your TNRM efforts. We believe TNRM is an effective way to control the growth of community cat populations and improve their health through vaccination.
The good news is, at least for the time being, most of us are spending a lot more time at home and have the bandwidth to foster kittens. To become a kitten season hero, you can volunteer, foster, donate or adopt. Find a Best Friends Network partner in your area. But to animal rescuers and shelters, the mere mention of it can make them snap to attention and double-check their preparations, like emergency teams bracing for a massive hurricane. While big-eyed baby cats are irresistibly cute, thousands of them can roll in all at once, making kitten season the most challenging time of the year in shelters around the country.
In most places across America, animals mate and give birth in spring. This phenomenon can be attributed to a variety of factors, such as longer days, better weather and more access to food, which means higher survival rates for the offspring of many species. Unlike other animals, though, cats can keep on reproducing, having litter after litter right up until the weather turns cold again.
In many regions, kitten season can last from spring until early winter. Sure, newborn felines are ridiculously adorable, with their sweet little faces, jellybean toes and tiny folded ears.
It may sound like a dream come true to be swimming in kittens, but while the pitter-patter of a few furry paws is manageable, a downpour of kittens can quickly become a life-threatening flood.
The significant challenges posed by torrents of kittens have inspired both the creation of heroic new collaborative programs that are helping to save more lives than ever and preventive efforts to stem the tide. It tends to start with a few litters showing up in shelters in early spring.
Just think of how difficult it would be to juggle that many intakes in a single day. Then, stop to consider how you would manage more the next day. And the next, and the next, for weeks on end. What to do if you find kittens outdoors. In , Best Friends Network partners took in a staggering combined total of nearly , kittens. Overburdened shelters may have trouble finding homes for the influx of cats, even the young and highly adoptable ones.
The good news is that this preventable. Spaying and neutering cats, both owned and free-roaming, greatly reduces the number of unwanted and stray litters brought to shelters and lowers the number of homeless pets. Kittens can be safely spayed and neutered as young as two months old. Early spay and neuter is key because female cats can have their first heat cycle as young as four months old, resulting in litters of at least kittens.
For the many cats and kittens who find new homes through other means, there are clinics and mobile vehicles that bring the services to the community. For low-income pet owners, vouchers are also available for low or no-cost surgery. Clinics may offer reduced fee and free promotions or may have grants that waive the surgery cost.
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