With the school year winding to a close, schedules are already filling up with summer activities. If you have older children who love animals, ask them if they would be interested in fostering a litter of kittens. It’s lots of fun and qualifies for Community Service hours.

Fostering is a great learning experience that teaches pet responsibility. Kittens sleep most of the time, so the actual hours spent on their care is really only a couple each day. I can’t think of a job more fun than being required to socialize (play with) fuzzy, cute, kittens, can you?

The commitment would last about 3-5 weeks, until the kittens reach eight weeks of age, old enough to be spayed/neutered and then adopted.

Kittens can be kept in a cage as long as they get lots of hands-on attention and some floor time for stretching their legs a few times each day. Even better is a spare bathroom that could become a dedicated nursery during their stay with you; no cage at all would be needed then.

Although most of our kittens are motherless, occasionally a litter will come with a friendly mom. Kittens should nurse for at least eight weeks, so if we have the mother we foster the family out together. It’s wonderful to watch a queen teach her kittens to use a litterbox and eat “real” food.

Other pets in the home can be a plus. A kitten familiar with dogs is often a plus at adoption time, but resident cats should be kept away from the kittens for health reasons.

We provide all the equipment and supplies as well as instructions; you provide the love. Call us today if you are interested.