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Shelters & Humane Societies terms
Animal shelters and the charities behind them: capacity, funding, animal control and the humane societies.
Adoption feeThe payment a shelter or rescue asks when you adopt a cat, which usually helps cover its veterinary care and the cost of running the organisation.Animal shelterA facility that takes in stray, lost and surrendered animals, holds them, and works to return them to owners or place them in new homes.Kitten seasonThe warm months, from spring to autumn, when many unspayed cats give birth and shelters take in far more kittens than usual.No-kill shelterAn animal shelter that saves at least about nine in ten of the animals it takes in, a benchmark often called the 90 percent live release rate.Return to fieldA shelter practice of neutering, vaccinating and ear-tipping a healthy free-roaming cat, then returning it to where it was found.Return to ownerThe reuniting of a lost cat with its owner, ideally before it enters a shelter, using a microchip, tag or other identification.Rescue groupA volunteer-run organisation that takes in cats from shelters, streets and owners, cares for them in foster homes and finds them permanent homes.