Posted on 01/09/2007 8:52:23 PM PST by Kitten Festival
The recent spate of unseasonably warm temperatures have led to what seems to be an extended breeding cycle for some feral cats -- meaning a bump in the local kitten population and full cages at several local shelters and rescue groups.
So many new kittens have come into the Long Island Humane and Dog Protective Association, a private, no-kill animal shelter in Freeport, that the shelter has had to turn away callers wanting to bring in kittens for adoption.
"We have just been inundated with calls" about kittens, said Maria Cross, one of the shelter's workers. "Usually, by November, December, it ends. It just hasn't this year."
And the calls about kittens have come so fast and furious that Linda Stuurman, director of Last Hope Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation on Long Island wonders if...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Livin' life on the (l)edge....
In Deimos's case, true: He's 14 pounds of snugglebug. Of course, my eldest cat, Zia, is also a black-and-white, and she's the archetypical demon kitty, so I can't generalize.
Nah, he shares the dining-room table with my other two cats. My bed, OTOH, he pretty much monopolizes.
< AOL>Me too!< /AOL>
:^D
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