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Rewarding. Challenging. Life Changing. These are just some of the words our foster carers use to describe their experience of fostering an animal in need. By becoming a foster carer, you are truly making a difference and saving the lives of cats and dogs facing euthanasia within our community.

Fostering involves caring for a cat and/or dog in your own home until their forever home is found. As a foster carer, you will be supported by a Carer Coordinator who will assist you in your journey of being a foster carer. New foster carers will be allocated a Mentor and an appropriate animal to foster for up to their first 3 fosters – this way you will be eased into the fostering experience with animals that suit your situation. All standard vet work such as microchipping, vaccinations, desexing, worm and flea treatments for each foster animal is provided. Fostering is a big commitment so it is important to think through the below points:

  • If you are interested in fostering dogs, do you have a secured, fully-fenced yard?
  • Are your own pets well socialised and will they enjoy having foster animals come and go?
  • Do you have the time and patience to care for an animal in need?
  • As cats are fostered and rehomed as indoors only, are your window/door screens secured and intact?
  • Are you able to provide food when donations are not available?

Watching our foster carer information presentation is a great opportunity to find out more about fostering.

Foster Carer Information Presentation

Watching our foster carer information presentation is an important step to become a foster carer with Hunter Animal Rescue. The foster carer information presentation provides an introduction to who we are and discuss the process of fostering an animal so that you can make an informed decision to become a foster carer with us.

Please see our 17 minute presentation below. After watching the video you can then decide if foster caring is for you. If you wish to continue to be considered as a foster carer, you can then complete our Foster Carer Application Form. The application form includes 10 multiple choice questions about HAR from the video presentation. If have any questions about fostering please contact us.

Once your application is received and approved, we will be in touch to meet with you and start you on the rewarding and challenging path of foster care.

If you are renting we will require written permission from your landlord and/or real estate before we are able to welcome you on board as a foster carer. We are also always in need of temporary carers who take in a foster for a limited amount of time to cover carer holidays, emergencies or even just respite.

If you are interested in becoming a foster carer, watch our 17 minute video presentation above and then complete a Foster Carer Application Form that has 10 multiple choice questions from the video

Application Form

Special Needs Fosters

An important part of the rehoming process is ensuring our fosters are healthy before they go to their new home. All HAR fosters are vet checked before rehoming and occasionally issues are found that need to be addressed. Fosters can also arrive in care with known medical issues that HAR treats prior to rehoming.

Should the identified medical issues be ongoing we fully disclose this information to potential forever families prior to adoption.

The HAR adoption fee just covers the cost of standard vet work and parasite control we provide for all our fosters. The cost of treatment and surgeries for these special needs fosters are covered by our donations, fundraising and campaigns.

Contact us if you would like to find out more about fostering.

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