What does it mean to foster an animal? How do I apply?

Fostering an animal means you take a BC SPCA animal into your home and care for them. While they’re in your home, the SPCA provides you with food and medical care until the pet is available for adoption. Foster families help animals recover from illnesses/injuries or provide them with socialization and love.

If you are unsure about adopting an animal, or unable to make the commitment at this time, fostering can be a great way to bring animals into your life.

While fostering is temporary, many foster families fall in love with the animal in their care and decide to adopt them.

Some general things the BC SPCA looks for in foster families:

  • Length of commitment from a couple of days to several weeks
  • Ability to spend time with the animal every day
  • Daily monitoring of the animal as needed
  • Ability to accommodate time to transport the animal, as needed, for appointments, treatments and weigh-ins

Here is a link for people to sign up to foster: https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=f4d6d1b5-346b-4398-baa8-c48e68d6fa26&ApplicationFormNumber=2

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