"While we definitely need foster and forever homes for our cats and kittens, it's a short term fix for an immediate problem. The Auckland SPCA has been inundated with kittens because of unseasonably warmer weather extending cats' typical breeding season. We're still seeing hundreds of kittens coming into the SPCA each week and we need to find foster and eventually forever homes for all of them." "Cats normally start breeding during the warmer weather around October and it should start to slow as the mercury drops from April. It's calling for foster and "forever" homes.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 17, 2016 17:53 UTC