His animal shelter now has 171 cats. Last year there were 98, so almost double. According to Dielessen, this is because owners are more casual with pets. “Do I care, they think. Veterinarians cannot be paid, groceries cannot be paid for. Then the feeling is that we want to solve it quickly, we just dump the animal. They don’t care how we solve this. It’s a really weird time. Last Sunday we found another litter with nine kittens in a box.”
Kittens in a roadside box: young cats dumped more often this period
