Kittens Wrapped Up Like 'Purritos' Serve Up Some Afternoon Cute
— -- 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.
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.
