The San Diego Humane Society is Monday celebrating the fifteenth season of its Jim Lester Kitten Nursery & Foster Center, which has saved greater than 27,000 kittens since opening in 2009.
According to SDHS, the Lester Kitten Nursery on the organization’s San Diego Campus was the primary of its sort within the nation. It was created to fulfill the wants of neonate kittens — or kittens underneath eight weeks of age. Young kittens are one of the crucial at-risk populations to enter shelters due to the time and assets wanted to maintain them alive.
“Our Lester Kitten Nursery is critical to helping us stay at zero euthanasia of healthy or treatable shelter animals,” stated Jackie Noble, Sr., director of conduct, nursery and foster at San Diego Humane Society. “In other communities, baby kittens often have nowhere to turn. But here in San Diego, we are committed to giving every kitten who needs us a second chance.”
Since the nursery’s begin in 2009, San Diego Humane Society has added nurseries at their Escondido and Oceanside campuses. And Monday, a community of specifically skilled foster volunteers performs a key position, in line with a SDHS assertion.
These devoted fosters increase kittens of their properties and supply around-the-clock care till the infants are large enough for adoption — like within the case of Rose and Ruby, two of the nursery’s earliest arrivals this season. The kittens have been named after conventional spring milestones, the flower and gemstone, and have been simply days old after they arrived.
San Diego Humane Society expects to welcome greater than 10,000 kittens like Rose and Ruby this 12 months alone.
To be taught extra about how one can assist their work by donating or changing into a foster volunteer, go to sdhumane.org.
–City News Service
