We had decided to take the remaining three kittens and their mother to the Humane Society Animal Shelter yesterday. At the last minute, my husband decided to give us another week to find an alternataive situation for the little balls of fluff. A local pet supply shop has adoption days where they bring in an assortment of dogs and cats they have been fostering in hopes of finding homes for them. I spoke to the woman in charge and she was rather rude and abrupt. She even got on the phone in the middle of our conversation so I just left. She did, however, inform me that being it is 'kitten season', any cats we take to the shelter will be put down almost immediately.
In the back of my mind, I do understand that there is a chance that stray animals may end up being killed for lack of homes/room, etc. at the public shelters. The idea of actually handing over these sweet kittens and knowing for a fact that it is their last day wasn't something I could cope with and do. We have now put an all-points bulletin out to let people know we have the kittens and to spread the word. Meanwhile, we continue to feel like a kitten farm with three of them inside the house and three of them living on the front porch.
It is frustrating that there are so many people allowing their cats to have litter after litter of kittens that either end up feral or mistreated in the wilds and having to scrape and scrape for food. We are planning on having the two mother cats spayed and keeping them. My husband plans to build them a protective shelter outside. They do like to come in the house and sit in the stone entry way as a treat once a day.
In the meantime, anyone in the Southern California area that desperately wants a sweet kitten, I happen to know of three very adoptable sweethearts!
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