What are your experiances with fostering animals from the humane society?

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I usually end up adopting my foster dogs. I am the director of my own rescue though. I have some wonderful people who foster for me.

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I learned to look for traits that showed the pets I selected were still reachable.

A good book to help you get a dog back into good behavior and healthy spirits is, "No Bad Dogs, The Woodhouse Way."

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I am a foster mom for Living Creatures Animal Sanctuary. Currently I have three adult cats living with me. LCAS is a small rescue group, we believe that a pet living in a barn or garage, but still part of a family is better than being in a cage or being put to death. So all three of my cats are in my barn with my horses. A lot of rescue groups are much stricter though, they require the animal be inside a home all the time. So be sure to ask about that! Also, ask who will provide the food. We are given a food allowance-free pet food for our personal pets and the foster pets, as long as they don't go over so many pounds a month. Our rescue has very little money so we only do vaccinations no other unnecessary care (like spaying %26 neutering). I enjoy being a foster mom, but it is work. Some of the cats have problems, one throws up if he eats a lot!! So thats something I have to deal with! Also adults don't get adopted very easily and they are with you a long time.

Check out www.myspace.com/whisperingpine...
to see some of my foster pets:)

More foster parents are always needed... it's a good cause.

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Well I am fostering a pregnant cat from a cat rescue right now. I never knew how overwhelemd rescue %26 humane societies get until I saw all the cats/kittens the place had. It makes me angry because people don't spay %26 neuter their pets.

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I haven't directly fostered but I have filled out an application to do it but never sent it in because of three hard to deal with things that I learnt from the humane society I was going to be working with:
*My husband can't take the emotional side of letting the animal go
*The fact that you could be fostering a dog or cat that will be spayed even if pregnant and a good way along in the pregnancy
*The fact that you could be fostering a dog or cat that within a certain time limit may need to be returned for euthanasia.

Fostering takes a person with a heart of gold and a heart of steel. I take my hat off to those of you who have done it and continue to provide help to needy animals.

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I have fostered kittens and rats. I found out that fostering isn't for me. It KILLED me to let them go, even though they went to good homes!

From now on if I bring an animal into my house, it's here to stay.

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It's an expremely good cause, and they always need more foster parents. But the hard part is letting the animal go.