Shipping cats to make room at Kelowna shelter
KELOWNA – The B.C. SPCA in Kelowna has so many cats, staff loaded them into a van and drove them to another shelter in Victoria in hopes of adopting them.
With over 100 cats looking for a home at the Kelowna shelter, the SPCA Drive for Lives program transported 21 felines on Thursday.
“As soon as the 21 were gone, we immediately had another 10 come in – the wait list is never-ending it seems,” Kelowna branch supervisor Kaylyn Robinson says in a media release.
The SPCA has a sale on cat adoptions until Nov. 30, 50 per cent off the regular fees.
The shelters need to make room for the animals, which arrive as the temperature drops outside.
“It’s cold outside, and with the adoption promotion, we’re hoping we’ll see a lot of homeless cats find loving homes before the end of the month,” Robinson says.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander at halexander@infonews.ca or call 250-491-0331. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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If we euthanize some of these animals and deal with them within the community where they originate maybe people will get the message and become more responsible. At the very least we should stop importing and exporting the problem from one community/country to another.
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