Like the cats it literally spawns, kitten season springs out at us unawares instead of waiting patiently around the corner, like birthdays or the last day of school, when we used to have school. It’s here now, in fact—hundreds and thousands of kittens will soon be born everywhere unaltered dams drop them—parks, trash bins, under your house, and if you have an unspayed female at home and she’s accessible to an equally equipped male, in your socks drawer or laundry basket.
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Litters of kittens are brought to shelters frequently, sometimes nursing on their mother and other times scooped up by well-meaning humans who erroneously think the mother has abandoned them. Those motherless kittens are fragile and would die without care.