Rabbit season.
Kitten season.
Rabbit season.
Has it started yet?
here in ohio its mid to late april, depending on the weather. cold spring means fewer kittens survive
It’s starting about now, but this would be early litters. It kicks into high gear in April and lasts for some time. Female intact cats are starting heat cycles now, some that started early may be ready to birth now but more in about a month or so.
Kitten season started in late February in NH
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Kitten season started in late February in NH[/QUOTE]
OMG. And here in Oregon, Kitten Season has been stretching up to Christmas in “good” (or bad) years.
You know, one forgets that the Southern Hemisphere has an opposite kitten season. Aussies and New Zealanders are just opening the doors to a new deluge of kittens as we in the Northern Hemisphere see our supply slow to a trickle.
How come the Earth doesn’t get pulled way off balance by the biomass of kittens traipsing back and forth from North to South every year?
:no:
Some good news. Spay and neuters are on the rise. I was at the Humane Society on monday and they had over 2000 surgeries in the last 60 days!
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Some good news. Spay and neuters are on the rise. I was at the Humane Society on monday and they had over 2000 surgeries in the last 60 days![/QUOTE]
Wow, they must fill up their garbage can fast… even though Kitten Parts are still small.
I mean, migrating birds don’t drag the Earth down because they are flying while moving. But kittens! They walk. Or rather, they get someone to carry them between hemispheres. And how many kittens can a person carry at once? Maybe only two for such a long distance? So if you consider the weight of all those migrating kittens and the larger human vehicle, that’s a lotta biomass moving around en masse.
Maybe it’s not really the moon that affects the tides—maybe it’s the kitten migration from one end of the planet to the other! Slosh, slosh, slosh… 
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Maybe it’s not really the moon that affects the tides—maybe it’s the kitten migration from one end of the planet to the other! Slosh, slosh, slosh… :D[/QUOTE]
True (well, kinda. 'Cept that neither the moon nor weird things iike the shifting polarity of the Earth correspond with the Kitten Migration). But my point is that Too Few Cat-Centric Hypotheses are put forward in Big Science.
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Wow, they must fill up their garbage can fast… even though Kitten Parts are still small.[/QUOTE]
Lol yeah that office is pretty busy. It’s not just kitties, it’s cats, puppies and dogs too. People are getting smart! That Humane Society doesn’t ask questions, doesn’t make you fill out paperwork or jump thru hoops, just offers low cost spay/neuter with vaccines to everyone to help keep the population under control.
I’m seeing a mass of kittens traveling by sea, all on one side of the boat making it list.
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Lol yeah that office is pretty busy. It’s not just kitties, it’s cats, puppies and dogs too. People are getting smart! That Humane Society doesn’t ask questions, doesn’t make you fill out paperwork or jump thru hoops, just offers low cost spay/neuter with vaccines to everyone to help keep the population under control.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they should get a drive thru. You don’t even have to get out of your car, but hand the animal to the person at one window and get him back at the other one. I think the people (like me) driving diesel trucks should turn of their engine at the first window. No cat wants to
- Go for a car ride.
- Be handed out a car window.
- Be spayed/neutered (without so much as a “Yo. Here’s what’s on your calendar for today”).
- Also endure diesel noise/fumes.
For the love of a cat having a bad day, turn off the truck at the drive thru vet!
PS, I got this idea from my horse vets who had a circular driveway at their clinic. I would take my horse there to get his hocks injected. Seeing as how they tranquilized him and then we had to wait for him to wake up, I don’t see why they couldn’t just “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” him in the trailer…. drive thru style.
Well, I already have foster family #1 for the year. Picked mom and her five 3-day-olds Sunday. She was not the first one this year either; same day there were 6 newborns found in a box, sans mom, and there were a couple moms and babies the week or two before.
Bunny season has started in Alabama… the JRT found a nest last weekend. Didn’t end so well for one of the bunnies 
Kitten season has definitely started in Kentucky. A stray cat that took up residence in my garage had a litter 3 weeks ago. The stray is now named Tilly, and Tilly and her 4 babies are safely ensconced in my house.
I also have a semi-feral male cat who took up residence in my garage about the same time, and clearly the baby daddy of at least 2 of the kittens. He is now neutered, thanks to low cost spay/neuter clinic. It cost $10 and included a rabies shot. I’m so very grateful these programs are available.
I will have Tilly spayed once the kittens are weaned and placed in new homes. She’s a keeper. 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152005308757338&set=pcb.10152005312742338&type=1&theater
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Well that picture of the babies just did it. I need a new batch of kittens!
I hope against hope that Fraidy Foster Cat will deal with da babies (being little and helpless and all). Or maybe Fraidy will hurry up and get adopted!
