Jamestown  (JRHS)  A better life – it’s what we all strive for.  And, the James River Humane Society is no exception.

This fall, volunteer members, Gary Sahr, Cally Stromberg, Karri Woehl, Camille Kuipers, Sheila Marsalek and Jay Nitschke worked to rescue feral cats and kittens.

These wild cats received veterinary care including being spayed or neutered and receiving rabies shots. They were then placed with local rural families providing them with shelter and care. To date, 20 animals have been placed with seven families.

Why would the Humane Society do this?  By relocating the cats from the city limits, it provides them with a safer home, a better chance of survival and reduces the number of homeless animals.

An unsprayed female cat and her offspring can produce two litters per year.  With 2.8 kittens surviving per litter, an additional twelve homeless cats are born in the first year becoming 11,606,077 homeless cats in only nine years.

It is the shelter’s hope to continue the program in the spring and fall providing more cats with a better life.