Saturday, 16 August 2025

Hannah Shaw the Kitten Lady

Hannah is busy with Kitten Season, encouraging other people to foster baby kittens who are in danger of being euthanised. Her husband produces books of cat photographs, and looks after the many animals in their home. She has pigs, goats, kittens, puppies and even took in a rabbit. She is training people who want to foster kittens, and teaches classes on kitten care. She rescued her first kitten, Coco when she was a young girl, finding her up a tree, and scrambling up to bring her down. She found out that so many kittens are euthanised, and began to dedicate herself to rescuing them. Many of them have serious medical conditions or injuries and need a lot of care and veterinary treatment. One of their grown up cats is Chouchou, who was born with a severe cleft palate, but he was operated on and his mouth was repaired so he could eat normally. For months he had to be tube fed. She and Andrew kept him because of his medical needs and Andrew adopted him...Another grown up cat is Ferguson who has kidney disease, but who has been looked after for 4 years and is still doing well.

Monday, 4 August 2025

Kitten season

Its Kitten season in the USA, when lots of feral and outdoor cats have kittens and often end up wiht them dying or themselves not being able to look after them. Foster parents are needed for these little kittens who can feed and look after them until they are big enough to be adopted. They are very vulnerable and are often found dead or seriously ill or injured. Many good people go out and trap the adult cats and neuter them so they dont produce another litter of kittens... and others take in the homeless ones and feed and care for them and find them new homes.