Rescues: Get Help From Your Community This Kitten Season At NHES’s no-kill shelter, The Briggs Animal Adoption Center (BAAC), we are rapidly becoming inundated with young, orphaned kittens. All of us in the rescue field know spring brings kittens—lots of them. Like many of you, our resources are limited. Soon, our staff will take turns feeding, burping, and pooping tiny bundles of fur. But there are only so many hands to care for them, and eventually we have to start turning away kittens in need. We wish we could care for them all, but we have found a policy that helps: during the busy season, BAAC accepts orphaned kittens who are sick or in need of extra care. People with healthy kittens are given a kitten care kit and as much advice and encouragement as they need. The kit includes kitten formula, a nursing bottle, and three pages of instructions (here is a good source of this information). People often believe that by taking the animal to a shelter or rescue, their good deed is finished. When we send them home with this kit, we hope to help them understand that solving the homeless animal problem requires ha ...

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