Available: Cats and Kittens (also pics of my foster babies)

[Europhyllia]

The Floresville Cat Rescue took in several cats and kittens on an emergency basis and is now past capacity.
If you thought about getting a cat or two or three now would be a great time!
Lots to choose from. Please help if you can.
Make it a family trip, swing around 1604, have a nice lunch at Texas Pride and then pick out your kitty!

[Europhyllia]

I don't think I am allowed to post a link? But you can PM me or google it and find it or search for Floresville Cat Rescue on Facebook and it will be there too including lots of pics! I am not affiliated with the rescue. I am just fostering some 2 week old kittens for them right now.

[hobogato]

i dont think posting a link would be a problem at all karin

[Europhyllia]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/a...6788322&ref=mf

[Europhyllia]

still 7 kittens and several adult cats left!

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I think that longhair black male cat is going to be just gorgeous when he's in better condition!

[Europhyllia]

Here's a picture of my two foster babies from today:

They're about 3 weeks old and tiny! I am amazed they survived. When I picked them up last week they had a little brother too but he didn't make it and passed away during the first few hours here.

[Europhyllia]

still lots of cats and kittens available...

[Europhyllia]

they got an album up of some of the available cats and kittens. Check it out!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...d=413040973322

[cbianco]

Lot of rescuing going on here at MAAST.

My wife and I talked about becoming a foster home for a local rescue before we decided to adopt Bella. My wife couldn't bear the though of taking care of an animal for weeks or months and then having to give him or her up. How do you do it Karin?

Christopher

[Europhyllia]

I don't. We adopted the kittens. So my foster career is over. lol

I used to Foster for the ADL and it was easier than for private rescues as far as returning them goes.

In bigger organizations like the Animal Defense League the kittens and puppies are usually in very good shape when they go into foster care. They have good marketing, vet care, etc. so when you return them they are guaranteed being adopted and having a good place to stay while they wait.

In private rescue groups vet care is often covered by the foster parent (it's not expected but who can refuse when it's needed? You could just try home remedies, etc.). You're more aware of the struggles the rescue has in placing the animals, etc. The animals that would stay under vet care in bigger organizations depend on volunteer care in smaller rescue places. All that combined makes it much harder to bring them back to the shelter.

I picked up 3 kittens and 1 died within the first 2 hours. Both were about half the weight they should have been and barely moving. One started taking a bottle after a couple of days but the other one needed to be syringe fed for a whole week before being able to drink from a bottle. Honestly I am surprised they made it.
They were 2 weeks old but couldn't open they're eyes because they had really bad eye infections. My little boy asked if we fed them too much because he thought the yellow goop oozing from their eyes was from us feeding them too much milk. Went out and got ophthalmic ointment for them, etc. later took them to the vet for ringworm treatment. By the time they were old enough to return to the shelter the shelter was full with emergency take-ins and we had struggled so hard to keep these two alive, we decided to keep them.
They turned out super though. Very loving and SO TOLERANT. Even the 1 year old can carry them around and they just purr.

If you are considering adoption or are very strong in saying 'no' then fostering for a private rescue would be a great thing.
If you really want to limit it to Fostering then a big organization like ADL might be a better fit.