There are “The Dog Days of Summer,” but did you also know that there’s a “Kitten Season?” Learn how you can help cats and kittens this spring and summer.
Every year, I move between Arizona and Michigan in order to better normalize the heat that I have to suffer through—Phoenix is well known for summer temperatures that exceed 110F—and one thing that I’ve always noticed is that during the Spring months, there are a lot more young cats around to play with. This year, I came home to a rescue that my family is fostering (they’re uncertain they can adopt him, but because they know what I do they decided that they’d try it out.)
During the Spring months shelters suffer greatly under the weight of pet overpopulation, as is discussed in the HSUS article, and a good deal of them could probably use the assistance of able people to take fosters. Neighborhood cats will increase, populations do explode somewhat, and far too many end up getting put down because there just isn’t room.
The article reveals a good many ways for people to help out from fostering (like we are) to volunteering time, energy, money to shelters. Also nudges readers to remember to spay/neuter their pets to help curb this type of overpopulation. And then there are organizations like Allycat Allies who also need help in these times because of the swelling feral colony populations.
Btw, the cat is a gorgeous black cat that my family wants to name Titus Pullo…they’re mostly calling him “Cat” right now just in case we can’t adopt him, but I think they’re becoming rather attached anyway.
Link, via the HSUS.