Fostering With TCPR | TC Pet Rescue

FOSTERING WITH TCPR

When you foster, you save a life.

TCPR rescues animals from overcrowded shelters, stray colonies, and situations of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

Many of these animals would otherwise be euthanized, let free outside, or left to suffer without necessary veterinary care if they were not rescued.

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Become a cat foster

Become a dog foster

Thank you for considering fostering with TCPR.
You've come to the right place.

Twin Cities Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing homeless, abandoned, abused, and neglected companion animals. However, we are only able to help as many dogs and cats as we have open foster home for. Which is why we need your help!

OUR PROCESS

Select the tabs below to learn more about the steps to becoming a foster with TCPR.

Submit a dog or cat foster application.

Your application will be reviewed by our home visit coordinator. We will respond to you within 72 hours.

Send in a copy of your resident pets' vet records.

Now is a good time to talk with your vet about your plans to foster. Our home visit coordinator will request a copy of your pets' records after reviewing your application.

We review vet records to ensure your pets are up-to-date on vaccines, spayed or neutered, and tested for FIV/FeLV (cats only). We cannot place a foster pet in your home until we have these records.

Complete a virtual home visit.

If your application to foster is accepted, we will reach out to schedule a virtual home visit. During the home visit, you will have a chance to talk with another volunteer about fostering and ask any questions you may have! The volunteer will also cover fostering basics to ensure everyone's expectations are align and to set you up for success.

Review the foster portal and sign the foster agreement.

If your home visit is approved, you will be sent information on how to create an account in our foster portal. Within that site, you can review all of our foster protocols and procedures and then complete the foster agreement.

Begin fostering!

Once everything is completed and approved, our foster coordinators will be in touch to help place your first foster pet with you!

As an animal rescue organization aimed at reducing the homeless pet population and taking in animals with uncertain backgrounds, there are a few things we require from foster homes:

All resident pets much be up to date on vaccines and spayed/neutered

This includes the rabies vaccine and we HIGHLY encourage being up to date on FVRCP (cat) and DHPP (dog) vaccines. A few other vaccines we recommend (but do not require) are the Feline Leukemia vaccine for cats and bordetella for dogs. We also HIGHLY encourage all resident pets to be up to date on flea/tick prevention (dogs/cats) and heartworm prevention (dogs).

Resident cats must have a known FIV/FeLV status

If you plan to foster cats, it is important to know if any resident cats are FIV/FeLV positive so that we can protect future foster cats. You can still foster if your cat is positive for either or both!

*This requirment is not applicable if you plan to only foster dogs.

Foster homes must be located within 60 miles of Minneapolis, MN

Our rescue operations are located within the St.Paul/Minneapolis metro area. This radius is designed to ensure we have adequate support partners near foster homes.

Fosters must be able to transport their foster pet to our

office, other vetting appointments, and events.

Fosters should be comfortable driving to/from our office in Maplewood. But we also have supply hubs in Maplewood, Eden Prairie, Minneapolis, and St.Paul to help make supplies more accessible. Events are held throughout the metro area.

Cat fosters will need to have a small room with no inaccessible hiding spaces to start their foster cat out in.

This is a temporary holding area to help your new foster cat gets adjusted to their environment while you're getting to know them. It should be 100% closed off to any resident pets as well. Bathrooms typically work great!

Fosters must be able to communicate timely and respectfully via email.

TCPR is primarily comprised of animal lovers volunteering their time to help save animals in need. To ensure we are able to answer questions and track issues appropriately, email is our main method of communication.

ANIMALS IN

NEED

We receive an overwhelming number of requests to take animals into rescue. Click below to view some of the animals in need of foster homes. This is only a small portion of animals in need. So if you don't see one that would fit your home, we will help find a suitable foster pet once you approved to foster!

View animals

FOSTER FAQs

Answers to the most common questions about fostering through TCPR

Can't find an answer to your question? Email homevisits@twincitiespetrescue.org

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Twin Cities Pet Rescue
245 Roselawn Ave E, Suite 30, Maplewood, MN 55117
Please note, office hours are by appointment only, and no animals are housed on site.

LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD

FOSTER APPLICATION

Twin Cities Pet Rescue 245 Roselawn Ave E, Suite 30, Maplewood, MN 55117 Please note, office hours are by appointment only, and no animals are housed on site.

LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD

FOSTER
APPLICATION

Twin Cities Pet Rescue
245 Roselawn Ave E, Suite 30, Maplewood, MN 55117
Please note, office hours are by appointment only, and no animals are housed on site.