My regular readers know that we've been fostering cats for about 2 years now. Of those 2 years, we've had 2 cats for a year, and six more for 8 of those months as well. When we signed up, we were under the impression we were going to have the cats for a couple months at the most. And initially that was true. For the first year, we'd had 3 litters of kittens that all got adopted out pretty quickly.
I'm not sure what changed (I have theories I'm not going into today), but needless to say, adoptions through the rescue we were helping went to pretty much none.
My family LOVES furry animals of any kind. In fact, my hubby took in a rabbit because he was convinced if he didn't, it would be dead by the end of the day (for the record, he was probably right). That said, we officially hit our limit. Within a week of replacing our roof, our A/C died. After looking at those expenses and how much we were spending per month on food, litter, and gas and time getting the cats to adoption events, we decided it was time the cats had to go.
I am proud to say we are done. Today, I took 8 cats to be fostered somewhere else.
My daughter is sad to see a few of them go. I on the other hand am not. Although most of the cats were friendly, they were getting to be too much. In addition to feeding and scooping them, we essentially had to baby-proof the house. On those occasions when I didn't get that done, things were destroyed.
I am happy to say, that we are now a 1 cat family. We may get another cat down the road, but as far as I'm concerned it won't be for about a year (I need a break). Will we foster cats again? Perhaps, but I've learned a lot about the process, and I've learned that who you foster through is VERY important so we won't be fostering for the person we just finished with.
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