Finding good homes for cats and kittens can be a difficult task.

Giving them away from a cardboard box in your supermarket's parking lot is not considered finding a good home! You need to make sure that the adopters are willing to make the commitment to care for a cat for the next twenty years.

Did you ever wonder what happened to them after they were taken away?

To be honest, not everyone who adopts one of your sweet little kittens or puppies is being totally honest with you when they say the animal will have a good home.

Giving away any animal. whether it be an adult or a baby, without screening the potential adopter and without charging some sort of good faith fee can put your animal in dangers that you never would have considered.

There are people who make their living by go around picking up these "Free To a Good Home" animals and sell them to labs for medical research. You don't want to know what happens to them there. They will even bring kids with them so you believe they are a happy family looking for a little kitten

Free animals are also taken for sacrifice, they are used for bait to train attack dogs, they are even used for food for snakes. By just giving them away, you are basically saying that these animals have no value at all.

By putting a set price on them you are making it less desirable for these people as you are eating up their profit.

If you don't feel right about asking a price for a kitten, you can request that a donation be made to your favorite charity or local animal shelter.

You've cared enough about this animal to find it a good home, that entitles you to a donation, or to asking for one for your chosen charity.

How To Find Potential Good Homes For Your Kittens:

• Place posters in your local veterinarian's office, or humane society or animal shelter if they will allow it....always ask first.
• Be careful about putting an ad in the paper. At the very least - do not put a "free kittens or puppies to good homes" ad in the paper.