Animal Welfare Professionals

Hi all! I hope everyone is thriving this "kitten season"! I am the foster assistant with Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, Oregon. We are researching how other rescues and shelters let people know what foster animals need placement. We are currently using a google sheet that we add the information to for each cat and while it works it can be confusing to some fosters. Does anyone have a program or way they place fosters that you really like? It would also be helpful if you know if you pay for it or if it is a free service!

Thanks so much!

#FosterPrograms

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Samantha Flint
Foster Assistant/Admissions Associate
Cat Adoption Team
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Hi! I think it really depends on the size of your organization, the number of animals you're trying to send out to foster, and how frequently the list of animals needing fosters updates.

A couple of things I've seen organizations do include sending out (almost daily) mass emails with specific animals in the most urgent need of foster parents. Another popular method among rescues is using private Facebook or WhatsApp groups, where they create individual posts for animals that need fosters.

I think the biggest struggle with Google Sheets is that if it's constantly being updated, fosters have to go out of their way to check it rather than receiving a direct notification.

Overall, it really depends on the size of the organization, but I personally really like the email method! Hope this helps.

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Abigail Batic
Vice President
The Milk Drunk Foundation
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