PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) – It’s across the center of kitten season. It’s a time of 12 months by which the nice and cozy climate brings in additional kittens. This is because of cats breeding as quickly because the climate will get good.
WTAP checked in with the Humane Society of Parkersburg to see how they’re doing. Plus get a glance into how spaying and neutering impacts kitten season.
“Now it’s pretty much full swing. Every day we’re getting calls where people find kittens,” the humane society’s government director Gary McIntyre mentioned.
According to McIntyre, the shelter at present has 107 younger kittens in foster care. The shelter is at present at capability with cats however McIntyre mentioned that’s regular for this time of 12 months. Also they’re getting sufficient adopted that they’re not frightened.
This, nonetheless, isn’t the case for each kitten season.
“There have been years where it’s just not been possible to keep up and we’ve had to turn people away that we knew they had kittens that you know there’s just not a place for them,” McIntyre mentioned.
It’s essential to recollect how spaying and neutering prevents shelters from turning into overwhelmed.
“Any animal out there has natural tendencies just as humans do to recreate so, it’s one of those things that, if you can stop that from happening, you know it’s very important to slow down the population,” McIntyre mentioned.
It’s one thing the Humane Society of Parkersburg works to make extra reasonably priced with it’s SPOT Clinic.
“Our SPOT Clinic, this is the 10th year for that clinic to be open and SPOT stands for stopping pet overpopulation together,” McIntyre mentioned.
At the SPOT Clinic, spaying and neutering prices $45 for each female and male cats. That’s plus the required $5 rabies shot.
Due to grants the humane society will get, these costs can get even decrease, in keeping with McIntyre.
He added that, after getting mounted, male cats can nonetheless reproduce for as much as six weeks.
“For females it’s a much shorter window so, if someone has both males and females, it’s always wise to try to get the female done first,” McIntyre mentioned.
McIntyre added that spaying and neutering additionally helps stop overpopulation locally at giant. You can herald strays to get spayed or neutered without spending a dime so long as the humane society has grant funding out there.
To sustain with out there surgical procedure dates, hsop.org posts surgical procedure dates on the final Tuesday of each month. Just go to the SPOT Clinic part of the web site and click on the schedule surgical procedure button.
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