Meatball the kitten plays on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at the Associated Press bureau in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon) The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats.

Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile, were just 2 weeks old when the good folks of LIC Feral Feeders, a cat rescue in Queens, took them in and bottle-fed them until they were strong enough to survive.

Consider these cuties the face of kitten season 2025.

Kitten season, typically landing during warmer months, is the time of year when most cats give birth. That produc

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