COLORADO SPRINGS — The Pikes Peak Humane Society has lately had a whole lot of kittens come into their facility. The shelter at present has over 300 kittens in foster care and at their building.
The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region says they typically see a whole lot of kittens are available throughout spring, however proper now, there’s an unusually excessive quantity.
One of the explanations there are such a lot of is as a result of the shelter will get pregnant cats that then give delivery, or the shelter could have households usher in litters as a result of they cannot care for them.
The Humane Society says that due to their community of foster households, they’re in a position to care for all of the kittens whereas they work to get them adopted.
The kittens have to succeed in a sure age earlier than they are often adopted, so there could also be a slight ready interval for these seeking to take them home.
You could bear in mind when the Humane Society made the same cry for assist after they had a whole lot of dogs come into their facility.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, the shelter had 90 whole dogs are available. Most of the dogs have been strays or misplaced pets, however near 30 have been surrendered by their house owners.
The Humane Society reached out to the neighborhood for assist as capability began to turn out to be extra of a priority.
These recent capability points come a bit of over a yr after the Pikes Peak Humane Society acquired an growth to their facility.
The growth added a complete of three,000 sq. toes to the building, permitting veterinarians to conduct round 5,000 extra procedures to take care of the well being of the animals.
According to Director of Veterinary Services, Julie Crosby, the power added an extra dental suite to “do dentals for senior shelter animals to get them prepared for adoption.” They additionally added a number of additional medical kennels for animals present process surgical procedure and hospitalization.
The undertaking cost $7 million to finish and was completed on the finish of 2022.
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