
This time of year a new population of kittens is brought to the attention of the local animal shelter.
Tina Nichols, Director of Operations at the Lakeshore Humane Society explains that the biggest thing is finding foster homes, or “People who are willing to be a temporary caregiver for these cats/kittens. Kittens are super fragile and do poorly in any animal shelter,” she explained. “It’s just like someone who has poor health, their immunity is low and they go into a hospital and many times get sick. There are a lot of germs you can’t control when you have this many animals in a facility.” So, Nichols says, fosters, first and foremost are what they’re in need of. “Our ideal hope would be that someday we have a list of people waiting,” she told Seehafer News.
“And, when a litter of kittens comes in we can reach out to the next foster and that we don’t have 40, 50, 70 kittens in our care in our building at one time.” If you have any questions you can call the Lakeshore Humane Society at 684-5401.