{"id":3817,"date":"2019-11-14T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2019-11-14T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:35:15","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-fall-kitten-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3817","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Fall Kitten Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kittens in the fall? It\u2019s possible\u2014more so in certain years and climates than others. Our Sophie was born in August\u2014way after (or before) traditional kitten season. Our local human society shelter is alive with kittens right now. I\u2019m told it\u2019s because of the warm weather we\u2019ve had this year. Whatever the reason, I LOVE visiting kittens no matter their birth date.<\/p>\n

Did you know that autumn kittens are thought to be more aggressive and weaker\u2014less \"\"likely to survive? That can be true for feral cats and the reasons are logical. They are facing harsh weather and a depletion of rodents without the maturity and skill of an adult cat. Cats in the wild must be more aggressive in order to survive and many of them don\u2019t make it because of the conditions they were born into. Experts \"\"say that autumn kittens raised in a healthy home suffer no signs of the seasonal syndromes that feral kittens \"\"might face.<\/p>\n

I could not find out the number of kittens typically born in spring versus fall, but just know that, at least here in California, there is a bit of a fall kitten explosion, in case you\u2019re thinking about taking in one more cats this year.<\/p>\n

I admit, I\u2019ve been to the shelter a time or two lately socializing the kittens and getting my kitten-fix. They are soooooo cute!<\/p>\n

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Kittens in the fall? It\u2019s possible\u2014more so in certain years and climates than others. Our Sophie was born in August\u2014way after (or before) traditional kitten season. Our local human society shelter is alive with kittens right now. I\u2019m told it\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}