Today is: Kitten Day

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Ivan Labrada-Escobar holds a small kitten during Animal Camp at the Palm Springs Animal Shelter in Palm Springs, Calif., June 26, 2023.
Ivan Labrada-Escobar holds a small kitten during Animal Camp at the Palm Springs Animal Shelter in Palm Springs, Calif., June 26, 2023.

National Kitten Day celebrates kittens and highlights the plight of those that are homeless in an effort to save as many as possible through adoption. It was created in 2012 by animal welfare advocate Colleen Paige as an adjunct holiday to National Cat Day, and it was first held the following year. For its first two years, it was celebrated in December, but it was then moved to July. For a few years in the mid-2010s, it was sponsored by BLUE Naturally Fresh Cat Litter, which appears to have been a collaboration between The Blue Buffalo Company and Naturally Fresh cat litter.

There are usually two to five kittens in a litter, but there can be as few as one kitten, or even more than 10.

Source: Checkiday.com 

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