There is a reason shelters worm, vaccinate and spay/neuter at 2 lbs. and that's because people want to adopt tiny kittens, and if ours are held until they are four to six months old, they won't be adopted because all the people wanting tiny kittens will be taking all the free kittens (signs by the side of the road) and ads on Craig's list. Already we have a problem by the end of our southern "kitten season" because it is so very long. Even the tiny kittens dont get adopted right away by mid-summer. When we do adopt them out, we want to make sure they are as protected as they can be, and in our state, animals must be neutered or spayed before they can be adopted out by any humane society or rescue group, so that's why most of the Animal Control facilities work with the rescue groups in order to get the animals out. It's also assurance that our babies WILL get their shots and be neutered/spayed and not reproduce, and this is the only way to make sure of that.
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