Mom Cat Observation Report

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A normal cold winter night made an unusual turn when little kitten cries were heard coming from the side of the Livingston First Baptist Church. Then, a mom cat was spotted on the side of the building trying to keep her kitten and herself warm, fed and healthy. The mom cat was skin and bones, as she was fighting the cold and nursing her litter of kittens.
Anna Holycross, the founder of Sumter Strays, and her boyfriend Kyle Gordy knew they had to improve the mom and the tiny kitten’s lives. They could not continue to see her suffering, so they brought a box full of hay to the church. The hay would be used for warmth and also a softer place to lie for her and her kittens to sleep. The box will also give the cat family an opportunity to escape …show more content…

In 2014, Holycross and Gordy started Sumter Strays, where they catch, spay or neuter and re-home or release hundreds of cats and kittens to better Sumter’s cat population.
“Sumter Strays all started with the one cat at the Baptist church in town,” Holycross said.
Holycross and Gordy knew that one mom cat was not the only cat affected by neglect. In just in the few months of monitoring that mom cat, she had two litters with multiple kittens in each.
Fairchildcat.org released a diagram with alarming statics. The diagram shows one mom cat may have four kittens. Within the next eight months, those four kittens will reproduce and have kittens of their own, while their mom will continue to have more litters. As the diagram progresses, the number of kittens continues to grow. If none of these cats get spayed or neutered, the life cycle will never end.
Laanimalshelter.com said an average female cat will have three litters a year with four to six kittens in each litter. Also, in seven years one mom cat and her offspring can have up to 420,000 cats. Of those 420,000 cats, only 1 out of 12 will find a

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