Pet Connection: Mittens and Stray Animals Matter
John Paul Schmidt, Jesse Inman • September 28, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For this week’s Pet Connection, we were joined by Mittens the Kitten and Samantha Reid from Stray Animals Matter to talk about Mitten’s story and how people in the area can help cats just like her.
Mittens was found by herself in the air ducts of a business in Monett.
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“She had quite an adventure in her early life,” Reid said.
Stray Animals Matter is a nonprofit animal shelter that has had Mittens for a couple of weeks. Mittens isn’t quite ready to go home yet, but she and many other kittens just like her are about to start looking for their forever homes or hang out at foster homes for a while.
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