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Newsletter
April 2020

Every Animal Should Enjoy Life!

Contents

• Springtime Tips for Pets ..................2
• Spotlight on Our Volunteers: Lauren
Adiletta....................................................3
• Happy Tails: Success Story ...............4
• Volunteering with EASEL ................4
• Contact Us/Hours of Operation.....5
• Pet Adoptions ......................................5
• Animals For Adoption .......................6
• The Human Bond with Dogs ..........8

Kitten Season Is

Upon Us: How EASEL
and YOU Can Help

Spring is not only a time when flowers
bloom and grass grows. It’s also a time
when LOTS of kittens are born. Pictured: Our newly constructed path to the dog play yard
In most places across America, Quarterly Update
animals mate and give birth in spring.
This phenomenon can be attributed
to a variety of factors, such as longer EASEL Q2 News and Milestones
days, better weather and more access
to food, which means higher survival COVID-19 and EASEL unnecessary deaths. That includes helping
rates for the offspring. Unlike other shelters like ours put into place guidelines
animals, cats can keep on reproducing, As the world, including New Jersey, and training for our volunteers and staff
having litter after litter, year after year. races to slow the spread of the COVID-19 about educating the public on a variety of
(bestfriends.org). Theoretically, one cat virus, we at EASEL have also been subjects, including proper sanitation.
can give birth to three litters of kittens monitoring the situation closely. We’d like During times of crisis, it also helps us
per year. With an average of four kittens our community to know that we take the alleviate the risks associated with having
per litter, and assuming an average health of our staff and animals seriously. to take in more animals than we (and
lifetime of 15 years, this could result in We were ahead of the game from the start shelters like ours) can provide, which
up to 180 kittens over the lifetime of and have always followed best practices could lead to unnecessary decisions to
one cat (pets.thenest.com). Assuming in the industry for maintaining animal euthanize animals due to a lack of space.
these offspring continue to breed … shelter cleanliness, safety and sanitation. Once the COVID-19 outbreak occurred,
well, you get the idea … hundreds of We are confident in our practices to keep APA! released further guidelines and
thousands of cats (oh my)! everyone safe -- whether they have a tail checklists that our staff has followed,
Where do they all go, you ask? or not. including putting into place a framework
Mostly, they congregate in feral Long before the outbreak, we to ensure that no shelter pet lives are
colonies outside, and those that are had adapted recommendations by lost and that our staff is proactive in
captured, may be brought to local America Pets Alive! (APA!), a nation-wide protecting the health and safety of our
educational program that works to pets and the community. These guidelines
Continued on page 7 prevent as many animals as possible from Continued on page 5

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