Illustration of a bottle-fed kitten. – CATERS / SIPA
Purple alert in SPA shelters. Along with the standard wave of summer season abandonments, this yr comes a large inflow of deserted child cats. “There are always a lot of them in July but this summer, all of our refuge chiefs are seeing that there are even more. They are sometimes barely weaned and very fragile. They must then be entrusted to host families who bottle-feed them every two hours, it’s a full-time job ”confides Jacques-Charles Fombonne, volunteer president of the SPA.
At subject: the impossibility of making use of through the well being disaster the standard sterilization campaigns, which have been canceled resulting from confinement. “Neither the associations, nor the mayors, nor the veterinarians were able to go out to do them in March and April”, explains the president of the SPA.
“The veterinarians could receive but in more restrictive time slots”, defined for her half on Monday to RTL the supervisor of a Loire-Atlantique refuge, who famous that with good climate the females additionally reproduced earlier.
Already 8,700 dropouts
Consequently, the 62 shelters within the SPA community are at present on the verge of saturation: “since the end of confinement, we have welcomed 8,700 abandoned animals of all species, our capacity is almost reached”, warns the president of the SPA.
The one glimmer of hope on the desk, the general variety of deserted animals is just a little decrease than final yr on the identical date, when 9,600 animals have been collected over the three months of Could, June and July. “Optimism tells me that our awareness campaigns on abandonment are starting to bear fruit, but my lucidity leads me to believe that this decline is more due to the fact that people are going on vacation later or less this year because of the coronavirus,” particularly overseas, ”concludes Jacques-Charles Fombonne. Earlier than recalling two imperatives to battle towards the scourge of abandonment: have your animal sterilized and punctiliously weigh your choice earlier than adopting it.
