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| - I would not recommend fostering with this organization. They are extremely ungrateful and all they seem to care about is pushing the cats through the foster homes as fast as possible to the cats' detriment so they can get as many donation fees as quickly as possible. I fostered with them until now and I experienced several negative issues with them. They are certainly not in need of foster homes as much as they say they do, because if they did, it would make no sense for them to refuse the cats I wanted to foster.
First of all, for no good reason, they persistently refused to let me foster the cats I wanted to foster. I requested a specific cat and I was told she was taken and offered a different one. But when I arrived to pick up my foster cat, the one I wanted was still there and the woman who was there to pick him up said that the foster coordinator suggested the cat to her (probably after I said I wanted it) but she was not partial to it and offered to let me foster him, and offered to switch with me. Without offering an explanation, the foster coordinator (who wasn't even there) refused to let us switch. I took the cat home, and I actually bonded with her really well. She was pregnant and she eventually miscarried six kittens early in the morning at 5 am. I took care of her throughout the morning and brought her to the vet first thing so she could be looked after. Barely a week after this whole ordeal, when she was still healing from her surgery (she got spayed after she miscarried), I got an email from a foster coordinator insisting that she be driven at 9 am to an adopt-a-thon at a store and that if she didn't get adopted that day, she would stay in a cage in the store.
I didn't end up doing that, because not only was it super early on a weekend morning and on the other side of the city, it was my understanding the whole point of the fostering experience was for the cats to receive care and love in a home environment before being adopted into their forever homes, not to languish in some tiny store cage for however long until someone adopts them.
Because I refused to do this, the organization seems to have a vendetta against me, and refused from that point on to let me foster anymore pregnant cats, saying that I didn't seem "keen" on driving the cats around and that pregnant cats needed to be driven to the vet on short notice - notwithstanding the fact that that is exactly what I did when my cat miscarried, and that they even thanked me profusely for doing so when it was needed. I even drove all the way to the outskirts of the city to pick up my first foster cat, and they are accusing me of not driving enough? What if I didn't have a car?!
I can only surmise that the reason they are so dead set on pushing the cats to the stores as quick as possible is because they care about money more than anything else. Most foster cat parents do this because they love cats and they love spending time with them. There is nothing to gain from the foster experience if we are just to be treated like assembly line facilities to run the cats through before placing them in cages in stores. That is no better than just leaving them at a shelter.
Not surprisingly, after I submitted a persuasive, well-written bio and took amazing, professional quality photos and videos of my foster cat, she was adopted within a day of them uploading the bio (it also took them almost a week to get the bio online after I submitted it - and yet they were complaining to me that because I hadn't driven the cat to the adopt-a-thon, she wasn't getting adopted fast enough?)
I have noticed very holier-than-thou attitudes from the staff at this organization when it comes to pet care and pet philosophy. For example, when I asked them why a cat who was given up because the owner could not afford the surgery was getting the surgery for free, but was not allowed to be returned to the owner, the foster coordinator very rudely suggested that anyone who can't afford vet fees does not 'deserve' to have a pet, even if that person may have loved the cat and tried everything in their power to get the fees to pay for the bills. I think it is because I happened to have voiced this opinion in the discussion I had with the organization via email from the beginning of my fostering experience that made them biased against me despite everything I did to care for the cats that came into my home.
To me, it seems like these people don't really care at all about these cats. All they care about are their own opinions and having their way, even if they are arbitrary and completely irrelevant to the wellbeing of the cats.
There are plenty of other organizations to foster with in this city, and a lot of them will give you food and litter for free - which this organization does not. I would recommend going to one of those instead.
EDIT: See their Facebook page for another bad experience with them.
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