(File Photo/ paNOW Staff)

By Ian Gustafson

cat relief

SPCA adopt-a-thon helps over capacity

Aug 19, 2019 | 6:57 PM

Over half of the cats initially housed at the Prince Albert SPCA last week have found new digs following the three-day adopt-a-thon that ran Thursday through Saturday. But even while celebrating that success, the SPCA was faced with another deluge of newcomers.

With over 70 cats and eight several dogs available for adoption, SPCA manager Ashley Bober told paNOW the event helped them find homes for 49 of them: 10 dogs ( two extra came in during the event), 15 cats, and 24 kittens.

“It was amazing,” Bober said.

The response from the public helped clear out space for more animals, which was just as well because during the adoption event they had five litters of kittens brought to the shelter, totalling more than 70 additional animals.

“We adopt out quite a bit, but we did have a lot of kitties come in at that time,” Bober said.

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So, the SPCA is now back to maximum capacity despite the adoption blitz.

“In the back of the SPCA in a room where we have the little baby kittens and the animals who first come in, we are extremely full,” she explained.

The biggest immediate issue Bober said they are dealing with is finding foster homes for some of the kittens.

“Our adoption gallery is in a pretty good place right now, but it is specifically baby kittens and their moms that we are really overloaded on,” Bober said.

She urged everyone who had a cat to spay and neuter it because it will massively affect the overflow of animals coming in.

“It’s ridiculous how many cats and kittens we get in here, I mean we do our best to help everyone we can, but it is sometimes extremely overwhelming,” she said. “We could get 25 kittens come in one day and we might only adopt out three or four so the difference of what is going out compared to what is coming in is a huge difference.”

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Ian.gustafson@jpbg.ca

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