We decided to take advantage of living in a 5 bedroom house and foster a mother cat and her kittens until we can find them homes. Take a look.

PAWS — Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society — is bombarded with animals this time of the year and simply doesn’t have the room for all of them. Sadly many (40% actually) are “put to sleep” because there aren’t enough homes or resources for them. So foster parents help by taking animals into their homes, thus leaving space for more animals in the shelter.

The cat (we’ve named her Tabitha for the time being) and her 4 kittens that we took in is super sweet. We were shocked when the shelter told us that they were brought in today by their former owner who told the shelter that “they had too many animals” and didn’t want this litter and mama. Why would anyone take in a cat or dog, not spay or neuter it and then drop it off at a shelter (where it will likely be killed) simply because it had kittens? People are really heartless.

There were so many dogs and cats we’d love to take home with us at the shelter. But we can’t save them all.

I was really impressed by the volunteers and foster parents. PAWS had 26 litters of kittens yesterday to find foster parents for and they found fosters for them! Several foster parents even took in orphaned kittens that needed to be bottle fed every couple hours. These people are heroes in my opinion.

If you are interested in adopting a kitten or Tabitha, they will be ready to leave foster are in a few weeks. Please spread the word to your family and friends. These cats deserve life-long families to love them.

As always you can email me to find out more or just say hello.