Houston’s tiniest residents are flooding the Houston SPCA nursery, and the shelter is tossing out its appointment rule to keep up. With more than a hundred bottle babies crowding the neonatal intensive-care room, staff are now letting qualified foster volunteers walk in, get a quick crash course, and head home with kittens the same day.
Walk-in fosters now welcome
According to Click2Houston, the Houston SPCA Foster Office is waiving its appointment requirement during business hours so nursery kittens can move out to foster homes as fast as possible. In the organization’s announcement, Chief Veterinarian Dr. Brandt Payne stressed just how critical that shift is for the animals.
“Every kitten that enters a foster home has a greater chance to grow, thrive, and eventually find a loving forever family,” Dr. Payne said in the statement posted on the Houston SPCA site.
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