The Humane Society is full to the rafters of cats and currently is not taking in any more adult cats, though tiny kittens, including four that had been dumped in a garbage bin, have been finding refuge there.
For the past week or so, the animal shelter’s ‘cat room’ has been packed, leading to an appeal for fosters to step forward and take home some of the stray felines.
Despite the temporary halt on new cat intakes, Samantha Cooper, the Humane Society’s operations manager, said the shelter has taken in several “tiny kittens” over the past few days.
She said there had been a “surprising” number of people bringing in kittens “of an age where they just couldn’t survive on their own and where there has been no sign of mum”.
Most have been found on the sides of roads or in bushes.
Tiny kittens dumped in plastic bag in garbage
“Perhaps the saddest case”, Cooper said, was the discovery of four very young kittens inside a tied plastic bag in a garbage bin earlier this month.
The three-week-old kittens, named Dakota, Dallas, Darcy and and Denver, are now in a foster home and are thriving, she said.
She added that, as usual, the Cayman community has stepped up to offer foster homes for many of the cats at the shelter, and it’s been “hugely appreciated”.
But the facility still remains at capacity.
It can hold 65 cats and kittens, and, as of Monday afternoon, 66 felines were being cared for there, and there are currently 128 in foster homes.
The shelter is also currently short of staff in its cat room, with some employees having left and others who have recently been on sick leave, so it is appealing for volunteers to help out.
An appeal over the weekend led to a number of people coming in, but more help is needed this week, Cooper said.
To volunteer, foster or find out more information, visit caymanhumane.org.
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