Global Warming’s kitten connection
Did I not tell you that the media is looking for anything to blame on Global Warming? This time people are blaming a booming feral cat population on Global Warming.
Global warming and kittens. While it may seem hard to see the connection between the two — a climate phenomenon that melts glaciers and acidifies oceans, and cuddly, 4-ounce balls of fur — experts say there could be one.
Each spring, the onset of warm weather and longer days drives female cats into heat, resulting in a few months of booming kitten populations known as “kitten season.”
“The brain receives instructions to produce a hormone that basically initiates the heat cycle in a cat,” said Nancy Peterson, feral cat program manager of the Humane Society of the United States, “and those instructions are affected by the length of day and usually the rising temperatures of spring.”
Peterson said kitten season generally starts in March or April, as the days get warmer and longer, and the flood of kittens continues throughout the spring and early summer.
You really can’t make this stuff up. As can see from my previous post linked to above, I tried to think of some stuff but reality always seems to be 10x better.
