BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) Kitten season is once again here.
This is the time of year where there is an influx of pregnant cats which adds strain to animal shelters across the Ohio Valley.
May and June are the peak times where the highest number of kittens enter the shelters.
Brooke County Shelter Volunteer, Steve Tennant says there are roughly 2,200 free roaming cats just in the county and about 180,000 in the Mountain State.
To help combat this nationwide crisis on a local level, the shelter is using a grant they recently got to help combat this issue.
“Trap, Neuter and you return and now that we have that grant here in the county we can start offering TNR’s for people who are managing colonies of free roamers, community kittens, community cats.”
Steve Tennant – Volunteer/Brooke County Animal Shelter
County | Estimated number of Stray Cats |
Barbour | 1,535 |
Berkeley | 13,608 |
Boone | 2,017 |
Braxton | 1,197 |
Brooke | 2,200 |
Cabell | 9,120 |
Calhoun | 587 |
Clay | 765 |
Doddridge | 762 |
Fayette | 3,830 |
Gilmer | 720 |
Grant | 1,089 |
Greenbrier | 3,191 |
Hampshire | 2,366 |
Hancock | 2,733 |
Hardy | 1,427 |
Harrison | 6,387 |
Jackson | 2,763 |
Jefferson | 5,990 |
Kanawha | 17,056 |
Lewis | 1,651 |
Lincoln | 1,932 |
Logan | 3,011 |
McDowell | 1,672 |
Marion | 5,562 |
Marshall | 2,884 |
Mason | 2,442 |
Mercer | 5,767 |
Mineral | 2,683 |
Mingo | 2,153 |
Monongalia | 10,763 |
Monroe | 1,212 |
Morgan | 1,773 |
Nicholas | 2,418 |
Ohio | 4,059 |
Pendleton | 588 |
Pleasant | 753 |
Pocahontas | 768 |
Preston | 3,398 |
Putnam | 5,634 |
Raleigh | 7,104 |
Randolph | 2,702 |
Ritchie | 785 |
Roane | 1,368 |
Summers | 1,150 |
Taylor | 1,606 |
Tucker | 635 |
Tyler | 806 |
Upshur | 2,350 |
Wayne | 3,693 |
Webster | 793 |
Wetzel | 1,369 |
Wirt | 516 |
Wood | 8,244 |
Wyoming | 1,960 |
If you wish to learn more about the Brooke Animal Shelter or find out ways you can get involved call the shelter at 304-394-0800.