A foster home for the holidays
The Roanoke Valley SPCA is participating in the national “Foster A Lonely Pet For the Holidays” pet fostering program.
Over 13,000 pet rescue organizations nationwide are trying to empty the kennels for Christmas, encouraging families to open their home for the holidays to an adoptable pet waiting for a forever home.
Fostered pets can be picked up between December 18-23, and can be returned to the RVSPCA between December 30-January 2.
The RVSPCA will provide all needed supplies and support to the temporary families. You can view all of the pets online at www.rvspca.org, or visit the shelter to meet them. The goal is to have each of these pets into a home by noon on December 23.
Ann Marie Sweeney, foster coordinator for the RVSPCA, will answer questions about the program for people interested in making this Christmas a happy holiday for a pet in need. Contact Sweeney at 344-4840, ext. 208 or e-mail asweeney@rvspca.org.
November 12, 2009 - 6:00 AM
Seems like a nice idea, but kind of cruel to take a pet into your home just for a few days and then take it back to the pound. They don’t understand the concept. Think about the animal, not your feelings.
wow.
I think part of the point is that you foster the animal, and then can’t possibly part with it after having it in your home for a while. I know that’s what happened with one of our cats. We found him as a stray kitten, he had a broken hind leg and was in pitiful shape. We had trouble finding any animal hospital or vet to do work on him, they all pretty much said they would put him down. We finally came across one that said they could do the surgery to repair his leg and get him well, using some funds from a local charity group to offset the cost, if we could put up a small portion. We agreed, and thankfully he was FIV negative, or else they would have also had to put him down. They fixed him up, and we fostered him for about 3 weeks while he recovered. After the foster period, we had grown so attached that we just adopted him (ok, some of our other cats also adopted him too, and we couldn’t separate them afterward). SO, I think that may be the goal of the program, though I agree that if you look at it the wrong way, it does indeed look bad.