The impending Mother’s Day holiday seems like a good enough reason to nudge you to take home and foster a kitten from our shelter at Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) or from one of the cat rescues listed in
Adopt, adopt, adopt. Any day would be fine, in fact.
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LBACS has reinstated its kitten foster programs. About two years ago, the shelter launched a program that saw a lot of the little critters leave the shelter and lead the best possible life with temporary parents, who socialized them, fed them, played with them, and sometimes didn’t give them back. I had two in my house for a few weeks, and of our editorial staff members each took one. Mine went back and were subsequently adopted I’m at my limit of three. Melissa’s and Valerie’s are still in their respective homes, forever, being little brothers to the established cats.
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Gift exchange! FOLBA board president Lauren Campbell hands a plaque thanking Timmons Subaru to Natalie Tiimmons, human resources manager for the dealership as Rocky Ghahary holds the check in readiness. FOLBA’s mascot chews the scenery, which beats chewing the interior of an SUV. Photo by Kate Karp.
Subaru of America’s Share the Love events are designed to pay it forward to local and national communities. Over the past 13 years, the dealership has given more than $200 to national charitable organizations such as Meals on Wheels America and the National Parks Foundation and to local ones. Timmons Share the Love efforts have included distribution of personal protective equipment to local small businesses, providing toys for children at MemorialCare Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, and giving funds to local charities. In the space of two months November through December 2020 the recent Share the Love event collected enough money to make the ride a lot s
Low-cost spay/neuter clinic pitches in to help bail out the flood of kittens • Long Beach Post News lbpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lbpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When unaltered cats of opposite gender can meet up anywhere, particularly during the warmer months that make up kitten season, it’s a yowling supershedder event. The felines produce numerous of litters, with an average of four kittens per litter and a few higher than 10. Female cats can get pregnant at 4 months old, and the kittens birthed by each cat can be fathered by more than one randy male. Females can give birth three or four times a year during an average three years of life for an outdoor cat and about 13 for an indoor cat (who should be fixed anyway come on!). The kittens will have kittens who will have kittens who will have kittens. Even if you don’t crunch the numbers, it’s a sad fate for animals who are in reality domestic pets whose ancestors had the bad fortune to be kicked outdoors.
The Long Beach Animal shelter wants your input for its new strategic plan. And shelter pets need new homes. • Long Beach Post News lbpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lbpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.