The PACC bottle -
baby kitten program is another non-traditional way of engaging and benefiting the community.
The bottle
baby kitten program, which saves 90 % of the 1600 neonatal kittens we save each year (a higher save rate than any published survival rates in breeding facilities and nature).
Not exact matches
In 2017, we are working directly with Hannah Shaw, «The
Kitten Lady,» with a national educational outreach workshop
program, supplying information and supplies necessary to foster and raise bottle
babies to select rescue organizations.
Did you know that our bottle
baby program saved over 1,000 unweaned
kittens in 2011, the
program's second year, including every single unweaned
kitten that was dropped off at the Austin city shelter?
's introduction of the Bottle
Baby program, nearly all of these
kittens were euthanized because neither the shelter nor other groups in the community could provide the intensive care they need to survive.
From our Emergency Animal Medical Technician ™
program to our Second Chance Animal Trauma Hospital ™ to our
Kitten Nursery and Bottle
Baby ICU, Parvo Puppy ICU and Waggin» Wheels Mobile Adoption Vehicle, we have a vision to end animal suffering, homelessness and needless euthanasia.
Learn about our amazing WISKR
program and how it plays an integral part in nursing bottle
baby kittens, helping cats recover from medical issues, and further their socialization.
In 2012, we began to develop a robust
kitten foster network, and in 2013 we set up a bottle -
baby nursery at the Mission Hills facility and brought an additional staff person to manage the
kitten neonatal care and fostering
program.
As an added bonus, these
programs are not only less costly than feeding and raising the
kittens in the shelter, they present an opportunity for the shelter to build on their relationship with the community by engaging them in the direct lifesaving of «bottle
babies.»
Austin Pets Alive's Bottle
Baby Program saves over 1,000 kittens per year that would otherwise be euthanized due to the high needs of orphaned baby kitt
Baby Program saves over 1,000
kittens per year that would otherwise be euthanized due to the high needs of orphaned
baby kitt
baby kittens.
Participants are now headed back to their communities equipped with the tools necessary to bring about change — from becoming more media savvy and more politically effective to creating a bottle
baby program for saving unweaned
kittens.
Please visit our
Baby Registry on Amazon to donate items for the
kittens in our neonatal nursery
program.
The Mother Spay
Program was created after many years and many boxes of
baby kittens being brought to the Shelter.
Learn about Help Desks, bottle -
baby -
kitten foster
programs, social - marketing
programs, and Dogs Playing for Life.
It's easy to say «have a bottle -
baby program for
kittens» or «put on low - cost adoption events,» but it's much harder to figure out all the details and hoops to jump through to make these
programs work.