Fostering a Pet: What It Involves

Fostering saves more animals than adoption alone, because it frees shelter space and gives an animal recovery time in a home.

What it involves

Providing space, food, routine and socialisation for weeks to months. Medical care and often food are usually covered by the rescue — agree this in writing before you take an animal.

Set up a separate space

A quarantine room for the first two weeks protects your own animals from anything incubating and gives the foster time to decompress.

Your job is socialisation

A foster animal that has learned house manners, handling and travel is far more adoptable. That is the real value you add.

The goodbye

It is genuinely hard, and it is also the point. Every animal you let go makes room for the next.