Animal & Plant Conservation.
Kitty cat care (Cat Life Tips) Taking the animals to the shelter is not always a good thing because they often are forced to kill vast numbers of lost pets.
But if you have no choice then it is better than them starving to death slowly. Possibly the best bet is to take them to a no kill shelter or try to find a home for them. I did this article a while ago that will give you an idea of the sadness of a pet shelter–use pet shelters as a last resort if all the other choices have run out is my opinion.
Orphaned kittens–check for the signs first: If the kittens are plump, clean and sleeping in a heap their stealthy mother is probably around someplace and will come around and care for them. Pets, Animals & Info (favourite Tweets) What's your cat been up to... Watch Free Documentaries Online. Choosing a new pet to get or adopt. Before you decide to buy a pet from the pet-store, think about getting one form the shelter and saving a life today!
Most shelters do not like to show the pubic how many animals they kill. Often most animals that enter a shelter end up dead–in the example below 75% of the animals die. “Under Matthew Pepper the Memphis Animal Shelter is killing 77.45% of its animals” (source: accessed May 2011)