How to find a home for a found kitten
Apartment pet limits and full local sanctuaries make keeping rescued kittens impossible when you cannot afford them or have too many already. Without knowing how to screen potential adopters or finding open shelters, rescuers are left overwhelmed and struggling to place the animals.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Taking the kitten to a pet shelter or animal rescue
- 2Feeding kitten milk, kitten pate wet food, and providing warm blankets
- 3looking for a better job to stabilize the situation
- 4reaching out on social platforms and forums to find adopters directly
- 5reaching out to local rescues
- 6posting in local Facebook groups
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Now we have 8 and no luck finding homes for any of the refugees so far.”source ↗
“The local cat sanctuaries i know of are full and I’m not financially able to afford this large of a kingdom.”source ↗
“I love them all but I’m struggling.”source ↗
surefall-glade · r/cats · 14 upvotes
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