With kitten season approaching quickly, San Luis Obispo Animal Services is searching for kitten fosters in preparation for the inflow of young cats that enter the shelter yearly between March and October.
Kitten fosters present important take care of kittens beneath 8 weeks old, mom cats and their infants, kittens with medical wants and people nonetheless adjusting to human interplay. Fosters play an important position in enhancing the well being, well-being and probabilities of adoption for these young cats as they await their without end properties.
Depending on the age of the kittens, some might should be bottle-fed a number of occasions a day, together with outdoors of shelter hours. In these instances, foster care is actually life-saving.
Applying to be a kitten foster is a fast and straightforward course of.
The utility hyperlink and extra details about fostering could be discovered on the SLO Animal Services web site beneath the “volunteer” tab. Fosters are equipped with every part they want and skilled by shelter workers earlier than receiving kittens.
For folks with little to no prior expertise caring for kittens, kittens already consuming on their very own or mom cats with infants are a good way to ease into fostering. Fosters with prior expertise might search the additional problem of bottle feeding kittens or kittens with medical challenges.
Beyond the advantages for the animals, fostering could be extremely fulfilling.
SLO Animal Services administrative assistant Annette Sheely has been fostering kittens for over 12 years and encourages different animal lovers to use.
“What started off as a little hobby has become such a rewarding, enriching activity for my whole family,” Sheely mentioned. “If you want to laugh — foster fluffy, bouncy little kittens.”
