Milwaukee area shelters ‘overwhelmed’ with cats in need of forever homes

MILWAUKEE COUNTY (CBS 58) — An abundance of adoptable cats is overwhelming shelters within the Milwaukee space. These shelters are hoping to get the phrase out that they need assistance.

One group we talked to is correct now housing 225 cats. They’re all with foster households, every one caring for a number of cats at a time — in order that they’re in nice want of extra fosters, and particularly adoptees. 

One look, one contact and it is exhausting to place these tiny furballs down.

“And he’s very chill. He likes to be dealt with. He likes to play. He likes to sleep on his again and present us his stomach,” mentioned Alisen Huskey, foster mother for City Cat Coalition. 

Pine is certainly one of six 6-week-old kittens being cared for by Alisen Huskey in her Wauwatosa dwelling. 

“All of them should be adopted so we will discover extra cats to save lots of,” mentioned Sarah Otto of City Cat Coalition.

City Cat Coalition posted their plea on their Fb web page saying they’re overwhelmed and their fosters have extra cats than they need to.

“There’s been a scarcity of spay and neuter appointments. There’s sort of a vet scarcity proper now and there is no clear public TNR, lure, neuter, return, spay and neuter surgical procedures both,” mentioned Otto.

At Nearly House MKE, Karey Endthoff’s fostering a number of cats too, hoping to search out their purr-fect dwelling, and she or he’s additionally discovering cat adoptions down.

“Persons are going out extra. They don’t seem to be staying dwelling as a lot. Even simply the worth of bringing in an animal to the house,” mentioned Endthoff, founding father of Nearly House Cat Rescue MKE.

Nearly House Cat Rescue’s received 30 adoptables, which you’ll see on their web site, like Polo and Muppet.

“And so I at all times joke that Polo is the motion and Muppet’s the thinker,” mentioned Endthoff.

The 2 have turn out to be good buddies in foster care. She’s now on the lookout for a house to take them each. 

As a foster, adoption day may be bittersweet. 

“So it’s unhappy. I at all times cry. But it surely’s at all times a greater factor for them to have a full home to be in,” mentioned Endthoff. 

So many cats to play with, so little time. Should you’re curious about answering the decision to both foster or to undertake, you possibly can see all these cuties on these web sites: