Where do Kitten Rescues cats and kittens come from?
The vast majority don’t come from people surrendering them. Many come from city shelters. Most of those are under the age of eight weeks old and of those, a fair number are kittens under four weeks old that go into our network of bottle-feeders. A lot of our volunteers are active in TNR which stands for Trap, Neuter, Return. It’s a way of managing the feral population of kittens that are just being born on the streets. When you do TNR, you inevitably come across tame strays or kittens who just come walking up to you. About 35 to 40 percent of our cats come from TNR. I do a fair amount of TNR and I almost never am able to do a trapping project without coming across a cat or kitten that is adoptable, that has either been abandoned or was born on the street and is young enough to tame. We have a number of volunteers who are very passionate about shelter rescue because it is a very sad situation for adult cats particularly who are surrendered to animal shelters. They’re put in cages, in a
