San Diego Humane Society is celebrating a serious anniversary within the organization’s lengthy historical past of lifesaving: the Jim Lester Kitten Nursery & Foster Center is now open for its fifteenth season. The nursery has saved greater than 27,000 kittens since opening in 2009.
The Lester Kitten Nursery on the organization’s San Diego Campus was as soon as the primary of its sort within the nation. It was created to fulfill the distinctive wants of neonate kittens, or kittens below 8 weeks of age. Young 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 revolutionary reply the organization wanted to deal with the annual inflow of kittens.
Since launching in 2009, San Diego Humane Society now has nurseries at their San Diego, Escondido, and Oceanside campuses. Today, an in depth community of specifically educated foster volunteers performs a key position on this lifesaving work. These devoted fosters increase kittens of their houses and supply round the clock care till the infants are sufficiently big for adoption.
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the nursery, two of its earliest arrivals of the season have been named Rose and Ruby, pictured right here, after the normal symbols related to the milestone: the flower and gemstone. These tiny kittens had been simply days old once they arrived, and intensely vulnerable. They are actually receiving around-the-clock care in a foster home till they’re sufficiently big for adoption.
San Diego Humane Society will welcome hundreds of kittens like Rose and Ruby this 12 months alone. “Our Lester Kitten Nursery is critical to helping us stay at zero euthanasia of healthy or treatable shelter animals,” mentioned Jackie Noble, Sr. Director of Behavior, 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.”
This 12 months, San Diego Humane Society expects to confess greater than 10,000 kittens into their care. To study extra about how one can help their work by donating or turning into a foster volunteer, go to sdhumane.org.
