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Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Elmer Season?

It’s Kitten Season!

We’ve all heard of wabbit season and duck season, but did you know that there’s a kitten season? Fortunately it does not involve Elmer Fudd tiptoeing around with his shotgun, but every year in the spring we see a huge influx of kittens being born – both on the streets from unfixed strays and ferals and at people’s houses thanks to an unwillingness or inability to get their cats fixed. Many of these unwanted kittens end up in City and County shelters, and the overwhelming majority don’t make it out alive. The ones born on the street face all sorts of hazards from predators (such as coyotes and raccoons) to illness, starvation, fleas and exposure, and the ones that survive will end up feral and perpetuating the cycle of animal homelessness unless they are rescued at a young age and socialized or else trapped, fixed and returned.

In 2008, of the 1,230 animals that Kitten Rescue volunteers rescued, 820 were kittens, many as young as one day old. Sometimes we rescue entire cat families with nursing moms, other times we rescue abandoned baby kittens that need to be bottle fed around the clock.

Now it’s happening again. The shelters are being flooded with an influx of pregnant cats and moms & babies, and a day doesn’t go by when someone doesn’t call or email us asking us to take in cat families or bunches of kittens. Kitten season is the hardest time for rescuers. Fortunately, it only lasts around 8 months! During that time we’ll be sharing some of our rescue stories so you can see what the life of a Kitten Rescuer is like.

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