{"id":3779,"date":"2020-05-16T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2022-05-07T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T00:05:46","slug":"helping-kittens-during-kitten-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/helping-kittens-during-kitten-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping kittens during kitten season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During kitten season, it&#8217;s not unusual to find kittens in your community \u2014 and our first instinct is usually to rescue them. But not all kittens are in need of rescue \u2014 in fact, if you take baby kittens away from their mothers, you may be doing more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the infographic below from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleycat.org\/community-cat-care-category\/cat-care\/kittens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alley Cat Allies<\/a>, which outlines what to do if you see or hear kittens. <strong>Most important: Wait to see if there&#8217;s a mother taking care of them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleycat.org\/community-cat-care-category\/cat-care\/kittens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a> for more info on how to take care of community kittens and cats, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleycat.org\/community-cat-care\/kitten-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> for help in figuring out how to determine a kitten&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleycat.org\/community-cat-care-category\/cat-care\/kittens\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3780 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AlleyCatAllies-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During kitten season, it&#8217;s not unusual to find kittens in your community \u2014 and our first instinct is usually to rescue them. But not all kittens are in need of rescue \u2014 in fact, if you take baby kittens away from their mothers, you may be doing more harm than good. Check out the infographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[50,183,184],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snyp-events","tag-kitten-season","tag-kittens","tag-stray-kittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spayneuter.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}