Foster Supplies

Foster Homes need to provide the basic essentials for their foster cats. The other supplies will depend on what the cat require. Foster Homes can also see what supplies The Volunteer Centre has in stock.

 

Essential Supplies

• Food & water dishes

• Cat toys

• Litter box & scoop

• Bedding

• Carrier (Usually the cat will come to you in a carrier if being driven to you, you need one if you pick up the cat)

• Litter (No clay clumping litter for kittens)

• Wet and dry food - See the Feeding The Cat page for more specific information on what kind of food

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Suggested Items - These are items you would get as needed, or are nice to haves

• Camera - This is a very helpful tool to monitor cats when they are in the first few days of a new foster home

• Scratching post 

• Jars of baby food (chicken or turkey - for feeding finicky or ill cats and kittens)

• Brush

• Nail clippers 

• Enzymatic stain remover

• Towels & blankets for bedding - for expectant mothers

• Kitten milk replacer (KMR) - for kitten foster parents

• Hot water bottle (if fostering ill or orphan kittens)

• Baby gate - to keep kittens in a safe space

• Weighing scale (to weigh larger cats)

• Kitchen digital scale (Kittens only - to weigh kittens to ensure they are growing)