BECOME A FOSTER CARER
Furry Friends operates as a non-shelter rescue, placing cats and kittens with foster carers until they find permanent homes.
Fostering is a rewarding experience open to almost anyone.
Before approval, it is VERT IMPORTANT to note that we conduct a virtual home tour to ensure safety, prioritizing secure doors and windows and quarantine space.
HOME
Ultimately, we try to ensure that our foster carers are as little out of pocket as possible, but seeing as we are only funded by donations, sometimes food supply costs can impact our rescue.
Furry Friends Animal Rescue QLD does have certain requirements that need to be met before you can become a foster carer, one of these requirements is a virtual home tour to ensure your home is suitable for cats or kittens.
Most of our requirements are all fairly normal requirements of being a responsible pet owner. Our major goal is to ensure all our foster animals are healthy, happy, social and well mannered and ready for adoption.
Your Home
Is your home escape proof? Do you have screens on your windows and doors?
Kittens will test everything.
Transport
All cats and kittens must be transported in a secure cat carrier large enough for them to stand.
Personality
To build our profile for adoption day, we need to know all the little traits of the cat or kitten.
Quarantine
All cats and kittens coming into your care need to complete 10 days quarantine, so you will need the space.
Photos and Videos
We need plenty of good photos and videos for social media and so we can create a beautiful profile come adoption time.
Treatments
All worm and flea treatments must be administered on schedule and communicated.
Search Our FAQs
- 01
When a cat or kitten comes into your care, it is a requirement that they are quarantined for 14 days. This is to protect the kittens as well as any animals you may have in your household.
Kittens may not be vaccinated at this time, and if they have come from either the pound or found outside, there are many unknown elements they may have been exposed to. For example, parasites, worms, and ringworm.
14 days allow you to see if anything appears to be an issue and we can treat it prior to the kittens being introduced to your household.
- 02
This will depend on many factors such as age, health, temperament, and so on. Some of our cats come to us very timid and will require additional time allowing you to build their trust and confidence.
The general timeframe can be between 2 – 12 weeks, however, there are no guarantees; some may need that extra time for that someone special to find them.
- 03
Yes, all resident cats and dogs in your household should be vaccinated. This is part of being a responsible pet owner, and for the health and safety of your animals in general they should have the core vaccinations recommended by your vet.
Even though kittens coming into your care are quarantined for 14 days, they do not receive their vaccinations until later, so they are being exposed to illnesses that are preventable.
If you believe that you can give one or more of our cats or kittens a great temporary home, please complete the foster application form and one of our volunteers will contact you.
For further information, please download our Foster Carer Guide.