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KAR Rescues 43 Cats and Kittens from Foreclosed Home

The phone call came in on a Monday in March. A woman whose home was being foreclosed on was asking for our help with a large number of stray cats that she had left behind in her former home. There were at least four momma cats nursing newborn kittens, she said, four additional pregnant cats, and a couple of unaltered male cats. All were friendly. The heat was off, the house was empty, and there was two feet of water in the basement due to spring flooding of the nearby Kalamazoo River. At first they lived on the caller's front porch, but as they started giving birth, she moved them inside to help the kittens survive the bitter winter. Now they were alone in her cold, damp house, and time was running out.

KAR cat fosters stepped up to take the cats when they heard of their plight. Nine different foster homes split the 25 cats and kittens removed from the home that week. When the four pregnant cats taken from the home delivered an additional 18 kittens in the following weeks, the total number of cats and kittens saved from that one house rose to 43. The future looks bright for these 43 cats. KAR volunteers will ensure they are adopted into good homes, and because they will be sterilized prior to adoption, they will not contribute any more unwanted litters.

To find out what else KAR is doing...read our Spring 2009 newsletter.

Kalamazoo Animal Rescue, P.O. Box 3295, Kalamazoo, MI 49003
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