Without these two critical elements, kittens dropped off at shelters might miss out on their chance to grow up in a loving home. becoming a no-kill city, and why fostering kittens is so important, too.
That’s why the kitten nursery is so critical to helping L.A. They simply do not have enough space or resources to care for them for up to two months until they’re big enough for spay/neuter and then adoption. But L.A.’s large city shelters are like many others around the country. It would seem reasonable that a city shelter would be the best place to take the baby kittens. The kitten season, which starts around March in Los Angeles, is when the city shelters fill up with orphaned newborn kittens and some nursing mothers. “The more kittens we can place in foster homes, the more we can take in from the city shelters.” “There is a critical need for kitten foster volunteers,” says Elizabeth Pashley, the center’s volunteer engagement manager. Sherry and Stephanie signed up for the event to get hands-on experience bottle-feeding kittens, help from the nursery staff, and all the necessary supplies to care for their baby kittens. The importance of kitten foster volunteers Holding several “Clear the Nursery” events throughout the summer is encouraging more and more people to step up and help. The Best Friends kitten nursery is a big part of the effort, and foster homes make it possible to save so many more lives. And it’s why Best Friends and our No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) coalition partners have been focusing on cats and kittens. city shelters is the one pet demographic preventing the city from reaching no-kill. Meanwhile, very young kittens were arriving at Los Angeles Animal Services by the dozens every single day. Sherry and Stephanie were interested fostering kittens, but because they had never cared for such young lives before, they worried about not having the necessary skills.
When Sherry Xi and her daughter Stephanie, volunteers at the Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles, heard about the great need to save more newborn kittens in Los Angeles, they immediately signed up to foster.
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