NYC kitten rescue defends ‘NO F---ING MAGA’ adoption policy as PETA calls for it to be abolished

A New York City kitten rescue is standing by an adoption screening policy that explicitly excludes MAGA supporters, after PETA called for the practice to be scrapped. Itty Bitty City Kitties, a Rockaway Beach-based nonprofit that specializes in orphaned and neonatal kittens and feral cat welfare, drew attention after a social media post featuring a kitten declared "NO. F---ING. MAGA." and warned that claiming to be "not political" would not get an applicant around the policy. The post spread widely after Libs of TikTok shared it on X, prompting questions about whether the language reflected the group's actual adoption practices, according to Fox News.

PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told Fox News Digital that homeless animals do not care about a person's politics, only "if you love them and will give them a good home," and said she hopes the policy, which she called "humancentric," will be reconsidered and abolished.

Itty Bitty City Kitties Director Samantha Knox defended the screening approach to Fox News Digital, saying the rescue's primary responsibility is ensuring animals go to "safe, compassionate homes." Knox said the organization weighs an applicant's "public conduct and demonstrated values," adding that support for movements that normalize or celebrate cruelty, human suffering, forced family separation or animal abandonment during displacement is not treated as a mere opinion. Itty Bitty City Kitties describes itself as a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is listed among New York state's registered pet rescues.

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