Tis the Kitten Season
Written by Anne
First, my apologies for not writing more often. With all that's going on the site and elsewhere, I just didn't get around to blogging as often as I should.
The trigger for this post was a news item that I found in a newspaper from Calgary, Canada:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/kitty+season/3118591/story.html
If it's kitten season in the Canadian Rockies, it's kitten season everywhere!What does the term "kitten season" make you think of?
Are you getting all fuzzy and warm inside, thinking happy thoughts about all of those oh-so-cute little kittens?
Like practically anyone who was ever involved with cat rescue work, I feel differently. To me, kitten season is all about those thousands upon thousands of unwanted kittens, born into this world because someone thought having kittens would be fun. It's about those kittens ending up as orphan kittens in the streets, or inside shelter cages, often in line for euthanasia.
The equation is simple and cruel. There are not enough good homes to go around all those sweet kittens. It's up to us to do all we can to stop them from being born.
Spaying and neutering our pet cats is the most important thing we can do for them. Please help us spread the word and refer people to this article about spaying and neutering -
Spay and Neuter Your Cats
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