Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. For animal shelters across the nation, the arrival of spring means it is time to gear up for the annual influx of kittens ...

Q: Stormi, my new kitten, will be an indoor-outdoor cat. I know she needs to be vaccinated and eventually sterilized, but isn’t it better to let her have one litter of kittens before that? A: Cats ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators will continue to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2020. Q: Stormi, my new kitten, will be an indoor-outdoor cat. I know ...

For animal shelters across the nation, spring’s arrival means it is time to gear up for the annual influx of kittens known as kitten season. For several months, shelters usually see a marked increase ...

A team of two veterinarians and 4 technicians from the Massachusetts SPCA arrived in Berkeley County and over two days they, along with staff from the Berkeley Shelter, spayed and neutered 120 feral ...

In just Montgomery County, there are more than 85,000 stray or free-roaming cats. Clearly, cat overpopulation is a problem that many neighborhoods in our community are struggling with and one of the ...

Every year in the United States alone, millions of dogs and cats enter animal shelters. That’s worth repeating: Millions.