They arrive faster than we can save them

Kittens wait alone under the morning sun.

Morning light hits a building entrance where a cardboard box was set down hours earlier. 

Inside are newborn kittens, still curled together and alive only because the night stayed warm enough.

They were born within the past few days, too young to see, unable to move far, and entirely dependent on care they never received.

At this age, missing even one feeding or a steady heat source can mean death within hours.



Kitten season runs from spring through early fall, when unspayed cats give birth in large numbers.

Barely days old, they struggle to stay warm without their mother.

Large numbers of newborn kittens appear outdoors, many separated from their mothers or deliberately abandoned when care becomes too hard.

Most of them cannot survive without constant hands-on care. 

They must be fed every two to three hours, day and night.

Body temperature drops rapidly without insulation or heat. 

Dehydration and infection escalate fast, often before help arrives.

Most kittens born outdoors never reach six months of age. 

Roughly three out of four die from starvation, disease, exposure, or injury before adulthood.

Kittens arrive at shelters faster than space, staff, and care allow.

Shelters and rescue groups carry the weight of kitten season, as intake rises sharply over a short stretch of weeks and foster space disappears. 

Staff must make fast decisions about which kittens can receive immediate care with the time, hands, and supplies available, knowing some will not survive long enough to be saved.

The pressure does not come from a lack of effort, but from the number of births occurring all at once. 

Preventing litters before they are born is the only way to stop the suffering.

Cats like these would not suffer if they were never born.

The world's 600 million stray dogs and 87 million stray cats give birth to over 1 billion homeless puppies and kittens every year.

Tragically, those who survive, also reproduce and give birth to another generation of homeless strays - thus repeating the cycle of suffering, every year.

This is why our mission is to end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats — overpopulation — by developing a Cookie that will only need to be eaten one time, and it will, in effect, spay or neuter — without surgery.

With your help, we will end this suffering!

Please join us.

Yes, I Want to Help End the Suffering!

Thank you for caring and for helping animals.

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Sources:

[1] Shelter Animals Count

[2] ASPCA Pro