Video: What to Do When You Find Kittens Outside

If you find kittens outside, bringing them to a local shelter is not always the best option. It’s natural to want to scoop them up, but unless they’re sick, injured, or in danger, please leave them there and wait for their mama to return. Their best chance of survival is with their mom.

Then, plan to return at a later date and have the whole family spayed/neutered. Trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) is the most humane method of preventing cats and kittens from entering the shelter system.

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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.