Mission: Accomplished

Two of the six rescued kittens in their new home with their big “sister.”

As reported previously, more “shelters” are embracing Human Animal Support Services (HASS) and closing their doors to animals in need. Under HASS — euphemistically referred to as “community sheltering” or “managed intake” — municipal pounds stop taking in strays and often owner surrenders, telling people to handle the animals themselves, turn them loose, or leave them on the sidewalk. This puts animals in harm’s way and ignores their right to rescue.

For Good Samaritans who found that a feral mama gave birth in their yard, they had nowhere to turn. So The No Kill Advocacy Center stepped up: taking in mama and her six kittens.

With the last of the kittens off to new homes and lives, the mama was spayed and released back to her yard this week. The Good Samaritans will provide food, water, and a makeshift shelter.

Once again, these kittens and their mama are a living reminder of the vast disconnect between what Americans want and expect from animal “shelters” and what they too often receive: dereliction of duty at best and, at worst, deadly malfeasance.