Thanks for your interest in fostering

Fostering is one of the best things that you can do to help a vulnerable animal from the shelter.

Before you foster, RASKC needs you to complete this form and some other paperwork too, including one other online form. 

This form contains 32 questions and is four pages long. If you are not interested in fostering dogs, you may skip questions 25-30.

Only adults are to complete this form. Youth and others may assist in the fostering process, but one adult per household is considered the official foster volunteers.

Most fostering opportunities are with kittens and adult cats. Occasionally there are opportunities to work with dogs, rarely with puppies.

To be an official foster volunteer, you must:
  1. Be an adult (Children in the household may assist and attend training with their adult).
  2. Complete all of the required paperwork. 
  3. Attend Fostering Animals 101 (except hospice-only fosters are not required to do so).
  4. Attend new volunteer orientation (except hospice-only fosters are not required to do so).
If you've already attended new volunteer orientation, great!

If not, you are required to attend-- ideally within three months of having begun fostering or having attended foster training (*except if you're a hospice-only foster volunteer).

New volunteer orientation is typically offered at least twice a month (except not in February). 

To see the dates, location and possibly to register, see Step 2 at this webpage:  www.kingcounty.gov/RASKCVolunteer

You are strongly encouraged to attend foster training. Scroll to the end of this application for info on date, times, and location.

If you would like to foster  only"hospice" cats, then you may immediately receive training, usually within a week, by contacting Lori.Mason@kingcounty.gov

Thanks again for your interest in helping RASKC animals!

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* 1. What is your name?

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* 2. What is your email address?

Include multiple email addresses if others in your household want to be informed of the types of animals that are available for fostering in any given week.

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* 3. Are you at least 18 years old?

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* 4. Would you be open to the possibility of caring for a "Golden Oldie" cat (or dog) with probably only a few months (or weeks) to live?

You would be providing them invaluable comfort, rather than having these animals spend their last months (or weeks) in a kennel at the shelter.

RASKC would provide the free food, free litter, free medicines, and free veterinary care...  though extraordinary measures will not be taken to extend the lives of these animals.

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* 5. Do you work outside the home?

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* 6. Your employer, if any.

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* 7. Have you been convicted of a crime that involved an animal?

If yes, provide date, charge and outcome.

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* 8. If you have fostered before, please give types of animals and for what organization(s).

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* 9. I am interested in fostering:

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