Cat/Kitten Foster Carer

November 2023 - Please note at present we only require adult cat foster carers. We have enough kitten foster carers. Thankyou.

Thank you for expressing an interest in becoming a foster carer with the Sunshine Coast Animal Refuge (SCARS). You can make a significant impact on a cat in need. As a foster carer, you provide an environment that enables healing, trust-building, and unconditional love while our feline friends wait for their forever home.

We require all kinds of foster homes, from caring for the sick, injured and elderly, from kittens and pregnant mummy cats to those felines who aren’t coping in a shelter environment.

Fostering cats can be a ‘time and emotional commitment’, as you’ll go through the highs of raising kittens or building confidence in a scared cat, to the lows of having to say goodbye when they are ready to be adopted. Letting a foster animal go is giving the best gift. When you see a child holding their first kitten or an older person with a cat on their lap, you can’t be sad because they are so happy. Is it easy? No, but usually fun, rewarding and enjoyable - and it is always worth it.

SCARS will support you in whatever you and your foster cats and kittens need. We provide all their veterinary care onsite at the refuge, training, food, toys, bedding etc.

We ask foster carers to commit to fostering for a minimum of 3 months due to the resources required to start you off as a foster carer. Please carefully consider if you can commit at this stage. If you are moving house or going away on holiday within the next three weeks, please apply at a later date.

Please fill out the form with as much information as possible so that we can process your expression of interest