Providing the best care for your cats and kittens is easy! And we're here to help. This web builds on the experiences of two foster parents, Bart and Robert, who have been caring for foster kittens and cats for several years. We're often asked for information on cat care by friends and family, and it seemed time to put everything together in one place. In these few pages, we're providing a short useful guide with lots of good tips on providing care for cats and kittens. The mission here, so to speak, is to make the idea of fostering for a local shelter a little less scary for anyone wondering just what's involved, what they need to get started, the commitment required, and how to take care of their new friends.
I can't imagine anything more fun and rewarding than helping kittens and cats find a new home - and that's what fostering is all about: taking into your home on a temporary basis cats who need a little extra help getting ready for adoption. Whenever the fact that we regularly foster for our local shelter comes up in conversations, I'm surprised at how often we're regarded as long-suffering saints, toiling away for the greater good of the feline race! But it's really one of the best things we ever decided to do. I suppose it might be considered trying to save the world one kitty at a time, but we tend to think of volunteering as foster parents as just making a choice "what to do with the time that is given us", to quote Gandalf the Grey.
The simple fact is that there are millions of kittens and cats in the US who need to find homes. Tragically, many will never find homes and be "euthanized" - the polite term for killed - because no one will make a place for them. While it's true no individual can care for all the kittens of the world, every kitten we're able to foster is one kitten that we're giving a chance in life.
Of course, the information compiled here does not exclusively pertain to foster cats, and our web site provides lots of information dealing with everyday concerns in caring for our own cats and kittens. Caring for our animal friends can be challenging if we don't have the right information, and it's good to have a simple guide on hand.But facts and instruction books only tell so much-and they're pretty boring to boot. The real story is in all the fun foster parenting is! Cats are a laugh riot...toss a simple piece of crumpled paper into the mix of a pile of kittens, and chaos will ensue. If I had a dime for all the funny stories I could tell about the fosters we've cared for, I wouldn't have to work for a living! In addition to our Foster Kitty Gallery, we'll also be providing updates with stories on the foster kittens and cats in our care.
Finally, if you have any questions about basic cat care, fostering, or our web site - don't just sit there, ask away!
