Hello out there in the rescue community, followers of Cattyshack, and people who just love animals. Kitten season is upon us and we need help.
We are beginning to need more foster homes to place our animals in. The community is asking us to help with more adults and some pregnant mothers. If you are interested please go to out “Ways to help” page and click on the tab next to “interested in fostering.”
Please note, we are looking for people who are interested in fostering BOTH adults and kittens, not only kittens. We have several adults, or mothers coming in and we need fosters for everyone.
If you have questions about fostering you can always ask them in the comments for this post, or email them to us.
Some questions that we have answers to –
We provide everything you need but litter. If you can help with food that would be lovely, but we have food and meds. We also send cats and kittens to the vet if they need them. You also will have to transport them to and pick them up from their spay/neuter appointments – but we are looking for people to help with transport too. Cattyshack will provide you with food, dewormer, flea meds, eye ointment, flea comb, nail trimmers, new toys, and a carrier or two if you need them. We also schedule (and pay for) all vetting. You just need to purchase a couple new litter boxes and some litter. The rest is easy… just love on theses cats and kittens until they find their forever homes!! We do want everyone to keep the cats and kittens until they get adopted.
You will be contacted to schedule them for our lounge. Our lounge is located in Lowe Mill and we have cats there Friday and Saturday. Drop off is Friday morning and pick up is Saturday night. We usually don’t have the same cats come to the lounge every weekend unless we are short on cats.
It isn’t hard to foster – think of it as saving a life. It isn’t hard to let the cats be adopted either. If you think about fostering as saving a life, and think about giving them to their adopters, and then consider the fact that no one can keep them all so there can be room for more fosters and save more lives, it does make it easier.
Do we fall in love with our fosters? Absolutely! Do we keep all of them? Nope! Some of our fosters have adopted every cat they have from us, and some have adopted no cats from us, and both continue to foster as space and time allows.
Yes, fostering can be difficult. Sometimes cats get sick and it can be daunting. Cattyshack has had a few recently that have been a doozy – a kitten with a polyp in an odd place, a kitten with a strange bacteria, a kitten who needed her eye removed due to infection, and a cat who needs a few (possibly several) teeth removed. It happens, and if you don’t think that dealing with medical issues is something you can deal with – we understand!
Besides fostering there are other ways to help! We have monthly events, a subscription sticker club, monthly donors, you can make a reservation to visit the lounge, or you can help by sending us items from our wish list (especially right now, before all the pregnant moms and kittens come!!!).
So, we are putting out a call. Can you help?
*Cat featured is Louise. She is one of our adoptable cats and she is sponsored. She would love a home to call her own, one that will give her all of the Churu. If interested in a cat of your own, please look under “Our Kitties” and click on the picture of the cat you would like to apply for.