Kitten Rescue Team Foster Program

Our Foster Program, appropriately named The Kitten Rescue Team (KRT), is comprised of trained volunteers that foster young kittens found during our TNR efforts. Kittens under the age of eight weeks are trapped, given medical treatment for a healthy start, placed with a KRT foster for socialization and development, and then adopted into a loving furever home.

KRT team members are required to submit a foster application, and once approved, go through training offered by the Coalition and/or one of our partner organizations before taking kittens home to care for them.  

Our Foster Program offers two different types of fostering:

On Deck Fosters

On-deck fosters are team members who are ready, trained, and prepared to take young kittens into foster directly from the field after they are trapped. We make every effort to bring kittens to one of our partner veterinary hospitals for their initial exam and age-appropriate care before going into foster, but occasionally kittens are found or trapped after business hours and we need on-deck fosters to accept kittens straight from the field, and to be prepared with supplies and the ability to quarantine the kittens until we can get the to a vet for an initial exam, flea comb, parasite treatment, and general clean-up.  

Adoption Fosters

Adoption fosters receive kittens from On-deck fosters and will be trained to foster, socialize, and provide care for them through to adoption. They will need to take pictures and videos of the kittens, and provide assessment of socialization and readiness for adoption. They need to have the ability to take kittens to their vet appointments during normal business hours, and to maintain a folder of the medical records for each kitten in their care. Fosters will meet potential adopters in their home to see if they fall in love with your foster kittens.

Our goal is to remove young kittens from the field as soon as they are safely able to leave their mothers. If the mothers are no longer there to care for them, we will remove the kittens and place them in our foster program. Occasionally we will have both the mother cat and kittens in foster until the kittens are weaned then the mother cat is spayed and returned to her outdoor home where she was trapped. If she is friendly, we will work to find her a forever home also!

If you want to be a Kitten Rescue Team foster please complete the  below application and our Foster Lead will contact you to discuss your application and all the ways you can help. Thank you for applying to be a Loudoun Community Cat Coalition foster!

Contact us with questions or for more information. 

Foster Application

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Thank you to our partner organizations for helping us, to help the kittens! When we are unable to take in kittens, they help by handling the intake and care of the kittens through to adoption. We love our partners! #communitycatscommunityeffort

Loudoun County Animal Services, the Humane Society of Loudoun County, PetConnect, and The Animal Welfare League of Arlington Kitten Nursery (formed in partnership with the National Kitten Coalition) thank for your help to increase the number of kittens that can be saved!