Kitten Adoption Day
There is this kitten foster care program in Seattle, WA called Purrfect Pals. They have foster parents who take in litters of kittens and their moms and care for them until they are old enough to be adopted. It is a great program. I found one of the foster parents - John - on the web. He has a live stream of the kittens and you can watch them 24/7. He is great. He has this room in his house that he dedicates just to the foster kittens. He has a lot of cat furniture for them, a ton of toys, he goes in and plays with them. He weighs them every day to begin with to make sure they are gaining weight like they should. If not, he feeds them extra food. He brushes them. He takes them to the vet for shots, then toward the end, he takes them to get spayed or neutered. This includes the mother. Finally, he takes them to Adoption Day. He has fostered a number of litters. This time he is fostering Ripley's Kittens - Ash (m), Newt (f), Bishop (f), Dallas (m), and Parker (m). He has had them since the beginning of January.
Today is Adoption Day for Ripley's Kittens. They just left with the kittens and Ripley. The hope is that all five kittens plus Ripley will all be adopted today. They are just the cutest kitties and Ripley is a beautiful, sleek tuxedo cat. I don't see why they won't all be adopted. But I'm so sad to see them go. I watched them grow up and got to see their little personalities develop and picked a favorite (Newt). Foster Dad John did too, and he's said that Adoption Days are bittersweet for him. He loves cats and loves being able to help these rescued kittens survive, but giving them away is hard.
He usually never knows when he will get another litter, but he told us last night that he is expecting a new litter next week. And so it will start all over again.
Today is Adoption Day for Ripley's Kittens. They just left with the kittens and Ripley. The hope is that all five kittens plus Ripley will all be adopted today. They are just the cutest kitties and Ripley is a beautiful, sleek tuxedo cat. I don't see why they won't all be adopted. But I'm so sad to see them go. I watched them grow up and got to see their little personalities develop and picked a favorite (Newt). Foster Dad John did too, and he's said that Adoption Days are bittersweet for him. He loves cats and loves being able to help these rescued kittens survive, but giving them away is hard.
He usually never knows when he will get another litter, but he told us last night that he is expecting a new litter next week. And so it will start all over again.