What is Fostering?
Becoming a Cayo Coco Animal Rescue Foster means temporarily opening your home to an adopted cat or dog. It’s a short but important stop on their way to their forever home. Most often, fostering involves an airport pick up and an overnight stay while their new family makes travel arrangements. Every now and again, however, adoption plans fall through. When that happens, fostering may last a few weeks until a new family is found.
Fostering provides a cat or dog with a safe place to land and, for many, their very first taste of being treated like a beloved family pet. In their eyes, you’re not just a foster - you’re a lifeline. The difference you make in those days or weeks will stay with them forever.
Being a foster offers rewards that go far beyond helping an adopted pet on their journey to a new home. For some people, it’s a chance to enjoy the companionship of an animal without a lifetime commitment, or to see how a new friend might fit in with an existing pet. Fostering can be joyful and fun, and while saying goodbye may bring tears, knowing that you’ve given an animal a stepping stone on their journey makes it totally worthwhile. It’s a short-term role with a lasting impact - helping a rescue dog or cat feel secure, cared for, and ready for their new home.
Open Your Home For A Few Days
We often need short-term fosters to help our rescue animals complete their journey. When adopted pets arrive from Cuba, their new families may need a few travel days before pick-up. That’s when fosters step in - providing a safe, welcoming space before their final stop.
Open Your Home For A Few Weeks
Sometimes an adoption falls through. When that happens, we rely on long-term fosters to give a cat or dog a soft place to land until a new family is found.
