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Default He went to Jared!
On 1/4/2016 11:36 AM, wrote:
> 2.The statement that their animals are "non-sheltered" does NOT mean they
> are euthanized. Quite the contrary, it means the animals are kept
> ("fostered") in volunteers' homes until adoption.
>
> Now there is a danger in this, and the danger is animal hoarding.
> However, presuming the volunteers police each other, to make sure
> that none of them are overloaded to the point they can't care
> for the animals, all should be well.

Hoarding is a common problem among fosterers so it seems in my limited
experience. I volunteered for our local SPCA and fostered cats, and two
of those on the board were hoarders. I learned of the first one when she
asked me to pet sit one holiday weekend and she needed to leave town for
a few days. She had more than 60 cats, more than half of them kittens
and were sick. It was HORRIBLE. I know I found a dead one, and more
were dying. I was overwhelmed and had no idea what to do.

The second woman was found to be a hoarder after she unexpectedly died
and other volunteers had to go pick up the foster cats she had. They had
taken over the house, the garage, everywhere. Even the one place her
husband asked to keep as his own, his camper. I had to quit as a
volunteer after that. It was right around the time that my son died and
I already had a broken heart and thinking the volunteering would get me
outside of my head, it did just the opposite.

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