SAN DIEGO, CA — San Diego Humane Society is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of its Jim Lester Kitten Nursery and Foster Center, which 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, based on San Diego Humane Society. It was created to satisfy the wants of neonate kittens, or kittens underneath 8 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.
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“Our Lester Kitten Nursery is crucial to serving to us keep at zero euthanasia of wholesome or treatable shelter animals,” mentioned Jackie Noble, senior director of conduct, nursery and foster at San Diego Humane Society. “In different communities, child kittens usually have nowhere to show. But right here in San Diego, we’re dedicated to giving each kitten who wants us a second likelihood.”
Since the nursery opened its doorways, San Diego Humane Society has opened further nurseries at its Escondido and Oceanside campuses. A community of specifically educated foster volunteers performs a key function within the work, based on the organization.
Fosters increase kittens of their houses and supply around-the-clock care till the kittens are large enough for adoption, together with Rose and Ruby, two of the nursery’s earliest arrivals this season. The kittens, who had been simply days old after they arrived, had been named after the flower and gemstone to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the nursery.
San Diego Humane Society expects to welcome greater than 10,000 kittens this 12 months alone.
Visit sdhumane.org to find out about donating or turning into a foster volunteer.
