Fostering is an amazing experience. One doesn’t need to have any commitments for the long term responsibility of a pet.
You do not only save a life by fostering and giving love but also help others who are willing to adopt an animal by comforting the animal to get adjusted in a domestic environment. Helping an outdoor animal adjust to domestic life is one of the most important reasons why fostering should be practised.
The animal gets immense love from the foster parent and the adopter parent. After all, it’s all about love and care to ensure confidence in one’s life.
In some communities, the need for foster caregivers can be more important than the need for permanent adopters. Every animal that goes to a foster home brings down the number of shelter pets every year. Thus, leaving space available for more animals to get sheltered. It also reduces the number of animal killings as they get a loving family to be taken care of.
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What is Fostering?
Fostering is a process of taking care of an animal for a short period until the animal is ready to socialize and can adjust in the domestic environment and gets a family who is willing to adopt the pet.
Your Duty Would Do as a Foster Parent
Foster families make sure that the dogs and cats have plenty of love, food and a safe place for their fostered pet.
Fostering helps the animal learn the basic skills to be the best companion.
As an iAdopt foster, you get naming rights for your foster pet.
A foster’s duty is to learn all the likes, dislikes and behaviour of the pet, and of course, it is a big bonus if you like to click cute candid pictures of the pets.
How Does Fostering Benefit the Animals?
Fostering greatly helps pets that find the shelter environment challenging. For example, pregnant moms need a quiet, calm place to give birth, and puppies and kittens are vulnerable to illnesses they may pick up at the shelter.
1. Loving a Foster Pet Until the End
The animals who are suffering illnesses or are depressed can only be open up by love and care. An elder animal with a short life can feel the joy of being in a family through fostering, making the last moments beautiful for the pet.
2. Learn to Trust People and Become Playful
Sheltered animals often had a bad past, about which we rarely have any idea. When they enter the shelter house, they are afraid, timid and under-confident. They are often overlooked by people. They need love and care to overcome the stress for which they need to get adopted and experience life with a family. They learn to trust people around them and play with them happily only when they are given the chance of exposure.
3. Get Comfortable with Physical Contact
Animals are afraid of people around them, sensing something undesirable. Because of this, they are reluctant to physical touch. Which makes it a challenge for them to get adopted. Through fostering, they can learn to get comfortable with human contact.
How Fostering Will Help You
Fostering is not only beneficial for the animals but is also beneficial for the foster. When you decide to foster an animal you are also deciding to help yourself and feel the joy of having a pet.
1. Makes You Feel Great
It makes you feel great to save a life and see a change in the behaviour of an animal through your love and care. When you first see the animal, all you see is a need to have a change in the attitude of the animal for a better life. And by the time of getting ready to be adopted, you see a healthy change in the fostered pet.
2. Helps You Heal
If you’re going through a tough time and want to heal yourself then all you need is to get a pet. By this, you will learn how to take responsibility for loving and taking care of the pet. This will distract you from the odds you faced and help you heal yourself. Who knows you might just end up adopting a pet by yourself.
Conclusion
So, in this article, we learned what is fostering and why it is important. It not only helps the pet but also it helps the animal and the community. Contact iAdopt if you want to foster a pet and do your part to make this community a tad bit better and safer for our animals.
