CARIBOU, Maine — More Aroostook County felines are headed downstate to find new adoptive families.
The Halfway Home Pet Rescue will be transporting another shipment of kittens and young adult cats to southern Maine shelters on Feb. 20, 2016, and the rescue will possibly have extra carrier space for a couple of kitten litters or three or four young adult cats in their transport unit.
HHPR director Norma Milton said it is necessary that the felines be healthy and very loving to humans. “HHPR will donate parasite treatment and other mandated essential medical needs for the animals before travelling them in the HHPR vehicle with other HHPR cats. The animals must be surrendered to HHPR no later than Feb. 16 to be medically ready for the transport on Feb. 20,” she explained.
According to Milton, southern Maine shelters have done so well in their spay/neuter initiatives in their own areas that they now periodically have extra space available. Instead of drawing from the feline overpopulation from other states, they have committed themselves to reaching out to the overpopulation of cats in Aroostook County.
“Halfway Home Pet Rescue responded by sending them 166 of our cats in 2015,” said Milton. “HHPR continues to be very busy with the influx of cats needing shelter from the cold, and is pleased to make extra pet rescue spaces available to these homeless cats by transporting additional cats to Portland.”
HHPR makes approximately one or two trips per month with healthy, happy cats who can then be adopted at the southern Maine adoption facilities.
For further information, or to see the rescue’s cats available for adoption, please call 492-2264.
