Kent Animal Shelter hopes to purr-suade its supporters to take the “Million Cat Challenge” and make a difference in the lives of a million cats living in shelters over the next five years.
A shelter-based campaign, the Million Cat Challenge has a five-pronged approach to solving the problem of too many cats in shelters. One of the five tactics the challenge proposes is to reduce the obstacles to adopting cats out. Adoption cost is one of those obstacles.
And though a million sounds like an intimidating number, Kent says it can be done by approaching it one by one. Accordingly, Kent has slashed adoption fees on cats and kittens. Kent will charge a $10 fee for adult cat adoptions (cats aged 6 months and up) and reduce by 50 percent the adoption fee for kittens. With that fee, all cats and kittens adopted out are spayed or neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and feline leukemia and AIDS negative.
Kent was chosen as one of the shelters across the U.S. to receive a $1,000 grant from Maddie’s Fund to help implement the challenge.
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