And another admitted: “Oh great now I’m crying at 8 a.m. thinking abt how the kitties that have never had toys (sic).”
“She started marking your house with her scent,” another wrote alongside a series of crying emojis, with one begging: “Please find her a home.” The user confirmed she was “trying to find her a home,” but said that, tragically, all her local rescues in Philadelphia are at maximum capacity.
@cutiepatootieecats Shes a cutie🥹 #straycat #foryoupage #cats
Across the United States, an estimated 3.4 million cats enter shelters each year, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
Some of these stories have happy endings, with around 2.1 million cats going on to find new homes, and 100,000 stray shelter cats being reunited with their owners.
But, the ASPCA writes, around 920,000 shelter animals, including 530,000 cats, are euthanized in shelters each year.
There has been a major reduction in this number since 2011, where 7.2 million shelter animals were euthanized, with the decline partially explained by the rise in the number of animals being adopted or returned to their owners.
