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Foster Friday: Pro Tips

Foster Friday: Pro Tip Edition A Foster Friday Pro Tip for fosters or adoptive families! Mat training is an extremely useful tool for cat owners and it is an easy, reward-based activity that can help you bond with your cat!…
collage of three 6 month old kittens, one black and two white
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Foster Friday: Nurses Needed

Foster Friday: Nurses Needed This week on Foster Friday...calling all nurturing types! URIs or "upper respiratory infections" are a common problem for cats housed in a shelter environment, so we like to send those kitties to foster homes…
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Foster Friday: Spicy Kittens

Foster Friday: Socializing from Spicy to Sweet It's Foster Friday, were we dive into the important role that fosters play and this week we're talking about SPICY KITTENS! 🌶 The socialization period for kittens is between two and seven…
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Foster Friday: Fosters Help Pets Express Themselves

Foster Friday: Free to Be This week we’re discussing the role that fostering plays in allowing animals to engage in species specific behaviors. But what are species specific behaviors? Simply put, they are behaviors that animals exhibit…
collage of four kittens, two grey tabby and two orange with white fur around their snouts
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Foster Friday: How You Can Help

Foster Friday: A Plea for Help We've got a plea for help this Foster Friday! This kitten season has been INTENSE, most likely due to the months of COVID-19 shutdown where spay/neuter services were not available. We had 79 kittens in…
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Foster Friday: Sometimes it Just Takes a Little Time!

Foster Friday: Sometimes it Just Takes a Little Time! Happy Foster Friday! We have a story to share of a very special kitty named Drake! Drake has been in and out of BRHS 3 times, having been adopted and returned with his brother each…
a small black kitten snuggles on the shoulder of a women sitting on a couch
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Foster Friday: A Bond like No Other!

Foster Friday: A Bond like No Other! Happy Foster Friday! Little Peanut was barely a pound when she was brought into Henderson County by a Good Samaritan. Covered in fleas and with a wound on her neck, little Peanut's sweet personality…
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Foster Friday: Buddha’s Personality Shines Thanks to his Foster

Foster Friday: Fosters Help Personalities Shine! Happy Foster Friday! We're so happy that sweet Buddha was adopted last week after a couple week vacation in foster care! His foster Jennifer made sure to give us lots of great updates…
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Foster Friday: Meet Pants

Foster Friday: Meet Pants Happy Foster Friday! Do you have a vacant inn and a need for some kitty love? Meet Pants! Pants is a 2-year old sweet & petite housepanther that's in need of a foster home. This little lady was brought into…
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Foster Friday: Charleen

Foster Friday: Charleen Happy Foster Friday! We are SO lucky to have amazing fosters like Charleen! Charleen specializes in "bottle babies" - orphaned kittens that are not yet eating on their own. When we got a call yesterday from Henderson…