Best Friends Seeks Foster Families For Tiny Felines
– By Michelle Sathe –
Best Friends Animal Society Teams Up with Utah Partner Shelters and Rescues to Seek Fosters for Tiny Felines as Kitten Season Approaches.
It’s almost spring, and kitten season is sneaking up. Each year, thousands of tiny furry feline faces arrive at animal shelters throughout Utah and across the country, and community help is needed to make sure every life is saved.
By fostering a kitten — or a few — folks are providing them the chance to grow up and find families of their very own.
Every spring, a huge wave of kittens enters shelters and rescue organizations during a time known as “kitten season.” As the name implies, kitten season is the time of year when unspayed female cats have most of their kittens and generally stretches from May to November.
So Best Friends and its partners are reaching out early this year, with a national campaign encouraging people to sign up to foster kittens, let everyone know their help is needed, recruit and educate, as well as train fosters before the start of kitten season.
Kittens, especially newborns, require specialized and around-the-clock care to help them thrive. By asking the public to sign up to foster now, ahead of the height of kitten season, shelters and rescue organizations nationwide will have time to onboard and train new fosters so everyone is ready when the kittens arrive.
Starting early means making sure everyone is prepared to save every little life. As adorable as a wave of kittens sounds, it’s serious business.
Newborn kittens are among the most at-risk animals entering Utah’s shelters – proof that there really can be too much of a cute thing. Sadly, Best Friends’ data shows that two cats are killed in shelters for each dog. Every year, nearly 347,000 dogs and cats are killed in America’s animal shelters, of which almost 70 percent are cats and kittens.
“With kitten season right around the corner, we are asking everyone nationwide to raise their hands to help,” said Julie Castle, CEO, Best Friends Animal Society. “Whether you’re looking to post the ultimate cute on social media, need a daily dose of fun and silliness, or simply want to save lives and provide a kitten with a happy and healthy future, you can sign up to become a foster family today.”
Visit www.bestfriends.org/kittens to learn more about kitten season and fostering. So whether potential fosters are looking to melt hearts on social media or simply wanting to help save lives, signing up to foster now means people, shelters, and rescue groups will be ready when the fuzzballs arrive.
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