While kitten season takes place in the spring and summer in much of the United States, it can be year-round in warm climates. That’s why Best Friends is working with communities around the country to target underage kittens by putting together teams of volunteers willing to bottle-feed and care for them until they’re old enough to be spayed or neutered and adopted into a new family. Unfortunately, kittens younger than eight weeks old account for more of the animals killed in most municipal shelters than any other group of animals. Many of these very young kittens (under eight weeks of age) are brought to animal shelters simply because people don’t know what else to do with them. If the mother cat either doesn’t or can’t care for them, the kittens’ days are numbered unless someone steps in to take over the care and feeding - quickly. Each year, tens of thousands of kittens are born outdoors to free-roaming cats.
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