What is Kitten Season? Kitten Season is the time of year when, as weather gets warmer, animal welfare providers see a flood of kittens, with and without mom, in need of care. This is part of the larger springtime season of babies that takes place with our wild neighbors as well. Each year the AWLA has nearly 100 kittens and …
Kitten Season is Up and Purring at the AWLA
It was three in the morning, and this wasn’t the first time Bonny M. had been up that night at her Alexandria home. Only two hours had gone by, but it was time for yet another feeding for tiny Bentley and Cupid, two newborn kittens, one of them orange and the other mostly white. Bleary-eyed herself, Bonny still had an …
It’s Raining Cats!
Kitten Season Is Here Sylvia Gethicker and her daughter, Sylvia Landis, thought they were all prepared for the skinny gray tabby cat they were fostering at their Alexandria home to deliver her litter of kittens in May. They had put together the “Cadillac” of beds for her, a comfy canvas castle tucked away in a small bedroom. The birth was …
Kitten Season 101
What is Kitten Season? Kitten Season is the time of year when, as weather gets warmer, animal welfare providers see a flood of kittens, with and without mom, in need of care. This is part of the larger springtime season of babies that takes place with our wild neighbors as well. Each year the AWLA has nearly 100 kittens and …
Kitten Season 2018 in Review
“Kitten Season” is a busy time for animal welfare providers that starts when the first newborn kittens come to the AWLA and ends when the final kitten heads home with his or her new family. In 2018, the “Season” started early, with our first neonatal kitten Casper arriving in late January! Throughout Kitten Season, our foster caregivers provide these tiny …
The Kittens of “Kitten Season”
When you think of seasons, you probably consider, spring, summer, winter and fall, but another very important season at the AWLA is “Kitten Season.” Spanning as long as eight or nine months, Kitten Season begins when our first newborn kitten comes to us in the earliest months of the year, and lasts until our final kitten is adopted in the …
Are You Prepared for Spring?
Getting Ready for Spring Babies! Last Thursday, the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria hosted the second event in our brand new speaker series to help our community learn about the baby wildlife they might be seeing in their backyards this spring. AWLA Animal Services Officers Boyd and Doran spoke about the variety of wild animals that will be having …
SPEAKER SERIES: Get Ready for Spring Wildlife!
Join the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria to learn more about the animals who will be populating your backyard this spring, from the wild to the domestic. Alexandria’s Animal Services will provide more information about spring babies, how you can help keep them safe and what to do if you find an abandoned animal, whether it’s a squirrel, a bunny, …