WHAT IS FOSTERING? According to the ASPCA, approximately 6.5 million companion animals enter United States animal shelters nationwide every year, 3.2 million of them being cats. To help combat this large volume of animals brought into shelters, animal fostering has become a way to keep more rescues in homes while waiting to be adopted, instead […]
Kitten season is upon us. Although seeing these new babies roaming in the wild is cute, it can also cause some concern if you find one by its lonesome. Do you leave it be? What if you want to help it but worry the mother won’t come back for it? Is it old enough to […]
You’ve felt them when she pounces and bites down on your ankle. You’ve seen them when she sleepily yawns in your face. And you’ve heard them as she devours her cat food each morning. Your kitten’s baby teeth, those tiny but sharp little gems that help your baby eat, play, and pretend that she’s a […]
When looking to adopt a kitten, one of the most important questions you should know to ask is, “has she been weaned?” What is weaning, you ask? Weaning is the process of graduating a kitten from milk to solid foods, and that she has learned everything she can from her mother. Once a kitten is […]
One of my first mistakes after bringing a new kitten, Bud, home was failing to anticipate he’d get overnight hunger pangs — and that, if the little guy wasn’t successful rousing me by conventional means, he’d have no qualms about going nuclear. Ins For Buddy, that meant climbing up to the highest perch in my […]
We all know how necessary it is to get your cat or dog spayed or neutered, right? But what to do with a cat who’s already pregnant? The first time I found a preggo street kitty, my instinct was to take her to the shelter. I knew of a great no-kill place that I thought […]
