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[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Can I derail a thread or what? Had a great time there, John...Man, can those Mackinac Island folk separate you from yer money!

NCTBA

P.s.- Da Yoopers come from either Ishpeming or Negaunee...I can't remember which...and neither, I'll bet, can they!

[kiefer]

One can foster long term or short term and the shelter will look after the cat if you're away for a few weeks.. A donation would be nice but not required.

[kiefer]

Oh--and volunteers who can go in, say, an hour a week to play with the sheltered cats and keep them sociable will help improve their chances of not becoming timid or even feral from lack of contact with people. Email the shelter for information.

[veiledsentiments]

Can they house the cat for the two months of summer leave?

VS

[kiefer]

Yes VS, long term fostering is encouraged. Keep the cat(s) for the school term, drop the cat off for the Eid getaways and summer,and if it hasn't been adopted or refostered, pick it up when you come back.

A canine shelter is in the works, and there's a dog walking park under construction.

Here's the website again--go out and have a look if you're in Sharjah or Dubai. It's really looks the business.

http://felinefriendssharjah.com/

[ludhilltoysoldier]

I'm going to foster for Feline Friends in Abu Dhabi. Have litter, food, toys, etc, just waiting for a cat now!

[veiledsentiments]

[kiefer]

VS--the shelter had in its original proposal the idea that the shelter would also have an attached cattery to bring money in. But this hasn't panned out yet, so no pets can be housed there.

If a foster parent decides to give the animal a permanent home, keeps this info to themselves and continues to list themselves as a fosterer (perhaps to take advantage of the health care and temporary housing availibility), the fostered animal would naturally go to the first available permanent home if it were to be dropped off for a few days, weeks or month.

This is the case for all fostered animals. Whether in someone's care or not. If a permanent home opens, the foster parents bids a tearful farewell to their charge and the fostered animal moves up the social ladder to "house pet"

It sometimes happens that the foster parent grows attached and when that home opportunity opens up, they decide to come off the books as a foster parent for that animal and then they go through the adoption process.

One ex-bin pity kitty in foster care last year got a plane ride to a home in Wyoming. Slumcat millionaire.

[Rock Hopper]

Feel for the "hirees" who fostered, made interstate arrangements and in some cases had older animals put down, causing extreme heart ache, after being given contracts & dates with MAG in mind only to hear nothing from HR or MOE when orientation was cancelled. Forget the expense, how would you feel.
Rover In Time

[kiefer]

Rock Hopper, that's wretched. So many people UAE wide had to up and leave last year. The tough but kindest choice when they couldn't afford to take their pets with them was to put them down. Many simply released their pets onto the streets. If the pet never learned to forage or defend turf, the end would've still come but after much suffering.

I don't know of fostered animals in Sharjah who were put down because the volunteer animal welfareorganisations couldn't re-foster them. In Sharjah we had to re-shuffle around 30 cats when the summer came but somehow managed. Dubai doesn't have a shelter so there it might have been a case of having fosterers and all potential fosterers leaving. The co-chair of FF Dubai had to take in something like 20 cats because of all the ma salamas.

Fostering, not adoption, is best if one wants a quadra-ped around and one's job is iffy--here in Sharjah anyway. So--any takers?