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Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get
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Strawberry the kitten appears on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at the Associated Press bureau in New York. - photo by AP Photo/Mary Conlon
NEW YORK (AP) — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile, were just 2 weeks old when the good folks of LIC Feral Feeders, a cat rescue in Queens, took them in and bottle-fed them until they were strong enough to survive.