Foster Cats In Massachusetts

Open Your Heart & Home to a Cat in Need

Thank you for your interest in fostering homeless cats for Black Cat Rescue! We will work with you to ensure a successful foster experience. Get started now by completing a Foster Volunteer Profile below. We can’t save lives without you! Foster Volunteers are the heart and soul of Black Cat Rescue. All of our rescued cats and kittens are cared for in foster homes throughout Massachusetts. Black Cat Rescue does not operate a physical animal shelter, so we can only take in a homeless cat when we have a foster home ready to provide temporary care. You can directly save cats’ lives by fostering.

While some of our rescue cats come to us as owner surrenders or found strays, many are transferred to us from local animal shelters. Cats who are caged in a traditional shelter setting are often too fearful to meet adopters successfully. In open-admission shelters, for black cats in particular, the result is all too often euthanasia. By opening your home to a rescue cat, you are providing not only shelter but a healing, therapeutic environment and renewed chance at adoption for a cat in need.

Get Involved

Foster a cat or volunteer. Have questions before you commit? Fill out the form below or contact us for more information.

Fostering For Black Cat Rescue

As a Black Cat Rescue Foster Volunteer, you will care for a homeless cat or litter of kittens in your home until the cat is adopted. Foster Volunteers are responsible for providing a safe and loving home, food, and fresh water for foster cats.  Veterinary care is provided by Black Cat Rescue. Our foster terms generally range from several weeks to several months, averaging around three months. Potential adopters will meet cats available for adoption in your home. It’s wonderful for adopters to have the opportunity to view our cats in a home environment.

Here are some important questions to ask yourself and those in your household before fostering an animal:

  • Will you be able to spend quality time with the cat? On average, it is best to spend at least 2 hours a day with your foster animals. Socialization can be as important as feeding them and keeping them clean.

  • On average, it is best to spend at least 2 hours a day with your foster animals. Socialization can be as important as feeding them and keeping them clean.

  • Foster animals can ruin drapes, carpeting, and clothing and Black Cat Rescue will not be held responsible for any damage incurred while fostering an animal.

  • Foster animals must remain isolated from your resident pets for a minimum of seven days. Can you keep them in an enclosed area away from your animals?

  • If something unexpected happens, you will need to inform us right away of an early foster return.

  • They must go through Black Cat Rescue’s regular adoption process.

  • It can be difficult to let go once you have become emotionally attached.

  • This can be very difficult, but the sad truth is that it sometimes happens. In this event, Black Cat Rescue should be contacted immediately.

Foster Volunteer Profile

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Black Cat Rescue Foster Volunteer! Please fill out the profile below. Black Cat Rescue does not have a physical shelter, so our foster homes are absolutely essential to our mission to save black cats.