why foster care?

Animal shelters are often overcrowded, and shelter staff may lack the time to spend with individual animals. If that animal is suffering from an illness or has had a distressing past, it can take time for them to recover and to be ready for adoption.

As a foster carer, you will play a vital role in this recovery period – helping animals that need love and dedicated care to get them ready for their forever home. This is one of the most meaningful way you can take to directly change an animal's life.

How Fostering Helps to Save Lives?

You are helping the animal shelter, the animal, and yourself!

7 Reasons for Fostering a Pet

Make a difference – become a foster carer

How to Become a Foster Carer

Are you ready to become an animal's foster parent?

How to Welcome a Foster Pet into Your Home

A foster parent’s guide 

Alternatives to having your own pet

Maybe you cannot commit to having a pet? We show you other options to take care of animals without having your own

Is pet fostering for you?

Pet fostering provides temporary care to shelter animals who need to live in a home environment prior to adoption. A foster carer or foster parent may share their home with their foster pet for a long or short time, depending on the pet’s needs and how long it takes for them to be adopted.

Anyone who is thinking of fostering must keep this in mind. The longer you spend with an animal, the harder the parting will be. If a foster family and their pet really hit it off, the foster home may become a permanent home with the foster family deciding to adopt their foster pet. 

Saying goodbye to your foster pet

The hardest part of fostering may very well be when you let your foster pet go onto their new adoptive home. This can be hard especially if you have become very attached to them.  But, you should be proud and happy that you could accompany “your” foster pet on the road towards their forever home and open your heart for the next foster pet. If after a time with your foster pet, you cannot imagine a life without them, then you may have an option to adopt them and personally provide the forever home they need.