Stinking up the Humane Society with love from the animals
One of the bonded kittens was more focused on getting pets. Photos by Kat Sheridan
Conie investigates a heart.
One of the bonded kittens investigates the hearts in her litter box. 
Sky begs for a treat while posing.
One of the kittens rubs their head against a heart.
Fluffy sniffs a heart.
Conie was eager to come out and play.
Sky was quite eager to get pet.
Cookie Dough paws at a heart outside her kennel.
Conie wears a heart on his head. 
One of the bonded kittens gets a heart placed on her head. 
Fluffy investigates some hearts.
One of the bonded kittens investigates the hearts in her litter box.
One of the bonded kittens was more focused on getting pets. Photos by Kat Sheridan
Conie investigates a heart.
One of the bonded kittens investigates the hearts in her litter box.
Sky begs for a treat while posing.
One of the kittens rubs their head against a heart.
Fluffy sniffs a heart.
Conie was eager to come out and play.
Sky was quite eager to get pet.
Cookie Dough paws at a heart outside her kennel.
Conie wears a heart on his head.
One of the bonded kittens gets a heart placed on her head.
Fluffy investigates some hearts.
One of the bonded kittens investigates the hearts in her litter box.
Valentine’s Day is a holiday to celebrate love, with pink hearts and chocolate boxes. But what about people who aren’t feeling good about love and don’t want to celebrate the holiday in the traditional puppy-love way?
The Humane Society & Shelter Southcoast is offering a pink heart for those with broken hearts. For a donation, they will write the name of an ex on a heart that will be placed in a litter box or under a dog using the bathroom.
Although the goal is to have the cats use the bathroom on the hearts, but Catherine Wheeler, a worker at the shelter, said the cats enjoy playing with them as well. Some of the kittens will pick them up and carry the hearts around, or chew on them.
“We wanted to come up with a different way to fundraise for the animal shelter, but also have fun at the same time,” said Wheeler.
This is the first year the shelter is doing this fundraiser, so their main goal is to raise awareness so that it can continue to be more successful each year.
“It usually starts out small, and then we’re hoping in further years later that we’ll get more people in it,” said Wheeler, “But so far we’ve already had a lot of people that have been interested in it and who have donated.”
The donation is $5 for a small heart to be placed in a cat’s litter box with the first name and last initial of an ex, and $10 for a big heart to be placed under a dog as they actively go to the bathroom. Love really does stink in this sense.
The money goes toward support for the animals, such as food or vet care.
“We just want to make sure all of our animals are healthy before getting adopted,” said Wheeler.
