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Updated: 06/16/2012 08:00:05AM
Spring kitten boom swamps area animal-rescue agencies
PHOTO PROVIDED BY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
Summer, 5 months, is one of many kittens looking for a home at the Animal Welfare League of Charlotte County. They are also in need of volunteers, monetary donations and animal supplies. For more information, call 941-625-6720 or visit www.awlshelter.org.
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ENGLEWOOD — Given the agreeable outdoor temperatures, cats breed all year in Florida, but especially in the spring, and a local rescue is at wits’ end as to what to do with all the kittens from this spring’s kitten boom.
In the last 48 hours, Deva Ballantyne at EARS Animal Rescue Sanctuary has turned away 18 kittens, which she says breaks her heart.
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