June is Adopt - A - Cat Month

Celebrated each year in June, Adopt-A-Cat Month encourages people to adopt a cat from a shelter.

Every spring and summer, animal shelters receive dozens of litters of kittens. These kittens are in addition to all the adult cats who find their way into the shelters. Animal shelters don't have the space or the resources to take care of that many animals. Out of the millions of cats who enter shelters each year, only about one in four are adopted into loving homes. In fact, most of them -- more than 70 percent of them -- must be euthanized.