To celebrate kitten season, the Alachua County Humane Society is holding its first Kitten Shower at 2 p.m. Sunday at the shelter, 4205 NW Sixth St.
Litters of strays flood into Alachua County animal shelters from late spring until the end of summer. It is known as kitten season because it’s when outdoor cats begin reproducing at extraordinary rates.
Humane society adoption and foster coordinator Chrissy Sedgley said the shelter received four litters of kittens two weeks ago, according to the humane society.
“It’s going to keep increasing more and more,” Sedgley said.
The event’s purpose is to find homes for stray kittens.
Sedgley said the shelter relies on its foster network to wean abandoned kittens so they are healthy enough to eventually be adopted.
“It’s pretty intensive,” Sedgley said. “They have to be fed every two hours. It’s around-the-clock work.”
Berenice Jaramillo, 34, of Sarasota, said she fostered two kittens from the humane society when she attended UF seven years ago.
She rescued another cat from the same shelter three years later — a male brown tabby named Proton.
“I’ve rescued all of my pets from animal shelters,” she said. “There are too many that need good homes.”
[A version of this story ran on page 8 on 4/22/2014 under the headline "County humane society to host kitten shower on Sunday"]
