Can I add one or two more things to Freedom's excellent post?

My last foster pair from a rescue organization came down with ringworm a few days after arrival. Luckily, they were isolated.

Lesson #6: Keep fosters in a quarantine two weeks before you let them mix with your pets. This will also help them mix with your current pets.

I loved this foster pair immensely. When they healed, they had to be returned to PETsMART--the cage. THAT BROKE MY HEART. Since I had not heeded Freedom's Lesson #1, I could not keep them. My cats (Becky and Abby) were already at each other's throats and these two cats...well, it would not work even with Feliway going 24 hrs a day.

Yes, the pair did finallly get a new furrever home. But I had to know that my foster babies whom I loved were sitting in a cage for three months. THAT BROKE MY HEART.

Lesson #7: It's easier to foster when the cats go directly to their furrever home from your house even if you have to drive them to adoption events or prospective adopters.

Good luck to you. Fostering is a very rewarding way to give to animals. If it seems like I regret it, that is absolutely not true.

Here are my fosters: