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(CNN) - The Utah Animal Protective Society, a private nonprofit animal shelter, has an ambitious goal. He wants to get 400 cats adopted in four weeks.
This is not just a beautiful campaign or a fun internal competition. It is an effort to make room for the hundreds of healthy cats that run the risk of being slaughtered in Utah's municipal shelters.
Utah Animal Protection Society staff members realized that there was an overwhelming need to get cats and kittens out of slaughter shelters throughout the state.
"We quickly saw the urgency of this when much of our staff was visiting these other shelters and saw how flooded they were with the cats," Deanna Shepherd, spokesman for the Utah Animal Protective Society, told CNN. "We knew it was a crisis and we needed to help."
The shelter launched its campaign on October 20, sending calls on social networks, filming parody videos and creating beautiful cat biographies about their personalities. Until November 16, the shelter will eliminate all adoption rates for cats and kittens, as it attempts to adopt as many cats as possible.
Shepherd says that kittens are appearing in shelters at a higher rate than usual because there are a greater number of unsterilized and non-neutered cats.
Young kittens are especially vulnerable to euthanasia because shelters often do not have enough resources to care for them, he said.
The shelter expects to receive more than 200 of the adoptable cats that are in the sacrificial shelters in order to find them homes.
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