San Diego Humane Society’s Jim Lester Kitten Nursery & Foster Center is devoted to saving hundreds of tiny lives every year. In truth, because the nursery opened in 2009, it has saved greater than 27,000 child kittens — an unimaginable feat contemplating orphaned kittens are among the many most vulnerable animals to enter shelters.
Now open for its fifteenth season, the Lester Kitten Nursery was as soon as the primary facility of its form within the nation. It was created to fulfill the distinctive wants of neonate kittens, or kittens underneath eight weeks of age.
Neonate kittens are one of the at-risk populations to enter shelters due to the time and sources wanted to maintain them alive. But San Diego Humane Society is devoted to discovering options for probably the most difficult points in animal welfare, and this nursery was the progressive answer the organization wanted to handle the inflow of orphaned kittens who come into their care yearly.
Since launching in 2009, San Diego Humane Society now has nurseries at their San Diego, Escondido and Oceanside campuses. And at the moment, an intensive community of specifically skilled foster volunteers performs a key function on this lifesaving work. These devoted fosters elevate kittens of their houses and supply around-the-clock care till the infants are large enough for adoption.
Mollie, a recent alum of this system, got here to San Diego Humane Society at only some weeks old. She was underweight and in want of shut monitoring, around-the-clock feedings and nutrient dense meals to realize the load essential to thrive.
With the assistance of her caretakers at San Diego Humane Society and a devoted foster volunteer, Mollie made nice strides and now shares a household with a cat-loving Siberian husky.
As San Diego Humane Society celebrates the Lester Kitten Nursery’s fifteenth anniversary season, the organization will welcome hundreds of kittens like Mollie this yr alone.
The Lester Kitten Nursery is a cornerstone of San Diego Humane Society’s capability to Stay at Zero euthanasia of wholesome or treatable shelter animals, and it units our group aside from different areas the place orphaned child kittens usually have nowhere to show.
To be taught extra about how the San Diego Humane Society is making a distinction for kittens, and how one can assist their work by donating or changing into a foster volunteer, go to sdhumane.org.
