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Kitten Season & Orphaned Kittens terms
Kitten season in spring and summer: shelters flooded with litters, orphaned and bottle-fed kittens, neonatal care, foster programmes for kittens.
Foster careCaring for a shelter or rescue cat in your own home for a limited time until it is adopted, often a kitten, a mother or a recovering cat.Kitten seasonThe warm months, from spring to autumn, when many unspayed cats give birth and shelters take in far more kittens than usual.Neonatal kittenA kitten in its first two weeks, born with closed eyes and ears and unable to regulate its own temperature or toilet without its mother.