I've served as a fospice for Purrs Abound in MI. It wasn't intentional, but the cat they pulled ended up having issues beyond what we initially thought. I've never worked with/heard of an org that only takes in hospice cases, but I've had several from other orgs as needed. I have one old man now who has FIP so he'll stay with me until his QOL declines. He's from a shelter with municipal contracts, so they don't focus on any certain type/condition. They just happened to get him in as a stray.
Perhaps a rescue that focuses on medical/seniors? While many of those animals are able to be adopted out, I'm sure they get some that are near end of life and just need a place to live out their last days in comfort.
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Sam Maurice
Humane Society of Jefferson County
Jefferson WI
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-22-2025 07:07 AM
From: Ellen Gratch
Subject: "Fospice" for cats
Hello,
We have a current foster that is interested in doing cat hospice care. We occasionally do have cats and dogs that we send to foster in a hospice capacity but it's usually geared towards finding out if the dog or cat is able to be managed well and humanely. She wants to take in a cat as an end of life adoption to give them their best end and she wants to find a rescue that has that as one of their main purposes. Does anyone know of a group that does this? Of course, I worry that a whole organization that takes in these end of life dogs and cats might lean towards a hoarding situation but that's my own bias and I apologize in advance for that. We are in Michigan but I suspect she might travel to help one of these cats out. She has fostered for us a few times and is loving and does a good job, complete with scrapbooks made and all that good stuff but she wants to move away from temporary fostering of healthy-sick and go to fostering terminal cats.
Any advice is appreciated. (We do have a renal failure cat up for adoption plus the current hospice foster so I think maybe those 2 will be options for her now but in the future, we probably won't be able to fulfill her wants).
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Ellen Gratch
Capital Area Humane Society
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