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I Photograph Rescue Cats At The Largest No-Kill Cat Sanctuary In California (700+ Cats) To Help Them Get Adopted
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I Photograph Rescue Cats At The Largest No-Kill Cat Sanctuary In California (700+ Cats) To Help Them Get Adopted

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To honor World Spay and Neuter day, I wanted to showcase some of my new photos of the many adorable kittens available for adoption at the Cat House on the Kings – the largest no-kill, no-cage cat shelter in California, home to over 700+ cats and kittens on a 12-acre property in Parlier, California. It is a nonprofit cat rescue operation, which receives no government or public funding and relies entirely on donations from the public to carry out its mission.

Unfortunately, the road to cat adoption is often a long and strenuous one. Each spring jump starts “kitten season,” meaning in our community large numbers of unwanted kittens are regularly dumped in nearby orchards, abandoned in trash cans, or left on the streets to fend for themselves against cars, coyotes, and starvation. Every year the Cat House on the Kings steps up to take in not only healthy kittens, but hundreds of sick and injured kittens as well. In 2014 the animal shelter took in 1,030 homeless kittens.

The kitten photos you see here are just a few of the hundreds of inhabitants the Cat House will put up for adoption this year (to date they have placed over 24,000 cats and 7,000 dogs in new homes). Not only does the Cat House feed, treat, and care for these cute kittens, they offer a low-cost spay and neuter clinic to the local community to help control Fresno County’s ever-growing stray cat population (so far they have helped fix over 40,000 animals).

As a regular Cat House volunteer, each week I get to take pictures of the kittens who are ready for adoption. It’s a tough job making this photo series but someone has to do it! You can see more about the sanctuary here in my previous post.

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More info: cathouseonthekings.com

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    A crew of adorable kittens waiting for their forever homes

    So if you’re ready to play

    Be sure to adopt a rescue pet today!

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    Here, the ENTIRE building dedicated just to kittens

    Many babies arrive at the shelter early – like this litter of 3 week old kittens

    At the Cat House, kittens make many new friends

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    Who despite a rough start, have a safe home here

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    Like this beautiful healthy girl who was near death when rescued

    It’s lovely when they pose so nicely

    Especially when they smile for the camera

    Catching kittens pre-pounce can be a challenge

    But it’s so much fun when they’ve got whiskers galore

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    Even blind kittens will find homes through the Cat House

    Yaar! Like this little guy, One Eyed Willy

    Spayed and Neutered – this pair won’t add to the kitten population

    There are SO many rescue pets needing homes

    And…those kittens who don’t find homes

    Are free to roam the 12-acre property until they do!

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    Lifestyle photographer specializing in pets & people portraits, farm and food photos.

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    RafaelAvila
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    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I´m from Venezuela and my wife and I had 76 cats rescued from the streets and a place like this is our dream we hope that sometime

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    RafaelAvila
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    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I´m from Venezuela and my wife and I had 76 cats rescued from the streets and a place like this is our dream we hope that sometime

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