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Kittens Wrapped Up Like 'Purritos' Serve Up Some Afternoon Cute

These adorable kittens wrapped in material raise awareness for 'no-kill' animal shelters in Kanab, Utah. Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society wanted to spread the word about kitten season so enlisted the help of what they have dubbed 'purritos.'
Lori Fusaro/Best Friends Animal Society

May 26, 2015, 7:47 PM

 -- A no-kill animal shelter is serving up "purritos" with a side of cute in an effort to find some motherless kittens adoptive families.

The Best Friends Animal Society in Salt Lake City, which also has a branch in Los Angeles, has released some photos and a video of some of the more than 500 kittens it has taken in since March.

In the photos, the kittens have been snugly wrapped in little blankets like burritos.

"Sometimes you have to go cute to get serious information out there," Holly Sizemore, the program director for Best Friends Animal Society, said in a news release.

PHOTO: These adorable kittens wrapped in material raise awareness for 'no-kill' animal shelter in Kanab, Utah. — These adorable kittens wrapped in material raise awareness for 'no-kill' animal shelters in Kanab, Utah. Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society wanted to spread the word about kitten season so enlisted the help of what they have dubbed 'purritos.'

The push for homes comes as the shelter enters the middle of what it calls "kitten season" when shelters are inundated with newborn, abandoned kittens. The the season changes from location to location, depending on the temperature in each city, but Sizemore told ABC News that it tends to last from April through October.

"Sadly you see a number of shelters in June, July, August, September -- their kill numbers go up because they just cant handle the numbers," she said.