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Why Becoming A Foster Is Important!
Fostering literally provides a second chance at life for homeless cats and dogs. Since most rescue groups, like Hope For Life Rescue,
do not have the means or facilities to provide a traditional shelter for homeless animals, they utilize homes, just like yours, to
house animals in transition. To provide a foster home is to help Hope For Life Rescue save a life. People, just like you, provide
companion animal foster homes. They open their hearts and home to care for one or more cats and/or dogs. Some homes take only one dog
or one cat, others take in many. Regardless of the number, each of these homes working together with our rescue group helps save a life
that would not have been saved, giving those animals a chance for a forever home. The foster parents provide security, love and a place
for these dogs and cats to call home until a permanent adoptive owner or family can be found.
Many people are hesitant to foster. They are afraid they will want to adopt every homeless pet that comes through their door. The truth
is that foster animals will usually bond with you and your family--sometimes immediately, but almost always with time. Many times the
foster animal will need that little extra love, food, or medical care. It's only natural when you give love and care to one of these
left behind or abused animals that you grow attached. However, letting go becomes so much easier when you see the screening process of
adoptive homes, combined with the follow-up home visits and phone calls and the special care that we give to finding a loving family
that really wants to take your little foster into their home and make them a part of their family. Hope For Life Rescue will allow and
even encourage you to be a part of the process in placing the animal. And when you see how much love these animals give to and receive
from their new families, you will be proud and grateful to have been part of saving that life.
There are many reasons and rewards associated with being a foster parent; the following are only a few:
- You will give a dog or cat a second chance at life and love.
- You will provide a good home, instead of a cage or crate, until a permanent home can be found.
- You can give a feral cat a chance at real life inside, to experience love and care--the pampered life of a domestic cat instead
of an uncertain, hard future on the street fighting to survive.
- You will experience that warm, fuzzy feeling of seeing an abused or abandoned cat or dog learn to trust people, to give and
receive love.
- You will be part of the solution to the rising animal euthanasia (kill) statistics in our nation, and most especially in this
community and many of its shelters.
- You will know that you have saved a life and made a difference!
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