TEXT US: 270-319-2609
Hardin County Community Cats
Ready to Foster?
Fostering cats is an incredibly rewarding way to make a direct impact on an animal’s life. By opening your home to a cat in need, you provide a safe, loving environment where they can heal, grow, and prepare for adoption. Many foster cats come from difficult situations—abandonment, illness, or overcrowded shelters—and your care and love can make all the difference in their recovery and socialization. Fostering helps reduce shelter overcrowding and gives rescue organizations like us more flexibility to save additional animals. It’s also a deeply fulfilling experience: watching a shy or sick cat blossom under your care and eventually find a forever home brings a profound sense of joy, knowing you were a vital part of their journey.
How it works
Cats or kittens that need foster homes are usually too young to be spayed/neutered and adopted.
That's where volunteers like you step in to provide temporary housing and a temporary family for these foster cats. Some of the foster cats are mama cats with kittens, some may be single kittens found abandoned, we also have kittens that are teenagers with no where to go. We spay and neuter them at our twice a month clinics and adopt them out. Most of the time the fosters are in your home no more than a month or few.
​
Hardin County Community Cats supplies food, litter, preventives, cat carrier, etc. All you need to do is provide a temporary home and love. Once you sign up and meet with our volunteer coordinator, you’ll be added to our foster messenging app. When we receive foster cats in, you will have the option of taking or not taking them. We are happy to work around any vacations scheduled.
You’ll receive plenty of support while you foster. Our Foster group is here for any questions you might have, to share pictures of our furry friends or just to offer guidance and support.
Most of our foster parents work full time jobs and are able to provide the necessary care around their family life routine. After all, they are just little temporary additions to our family.
If you have never fostered before, no worries. We are here to help! Fostering can be a rewarding experience and teaches children about cats, responsibility and how to love and take care of an animal.
​
Kitten Season
As the weather warms each spring, “Kitten Season” begins across the country. Though some regions see kittens born year-round, most areas follow seasonal cycles timed with longer daylight hours and mild temperatures. In Elizabethtown, the time when the greatest number of kittens are born coincides with the beginning of spring and continues until late fall.
During Kitten Season, HCCC needs a variety of foster caregivers to open their homes to help cats and kittens in need. HCCC will provide you with the needed information and resources that you’d need for any type of kitten.