Open Your Home. Change a Life.
Give a cat the safe, loving space they need before finding their forever family.
League City Pets Alive is an all-volunteer nonprofit that partners with rescue organizations to save cats and kittens. Fostering provides a critical bridge between rescue and adoption, offering cats time to heal, grow, or gain confidence in a home environment. With our guidance and support, your temporary care helps prepare cats for successful adoption and saves lives along the way.
Why Foster
Fostering is a flexible way to help cats without a long-term commitment. By opening your home for a short period, you give cats and kittens the time and space they need to grow, recover, or build confidence before adoption. In return, you get the rewarding experience of caring for an animal in need and knowing your temporary support makes a lasting difference.
Short Term Commitment
Fostering is a 1-10 day time commitment helping to ensure cats and kittens have a temporary home and are socialized before they are transferred to their forever homes! You get all the snuggles and playful moments while making a meaningful difference during a critical transition period.
You Save Lives
Fostering gives cats and kittens a safe place to heal, grow, and gain confidence before adoption. A foster home can be the difference between a cat waiting and a cat thriving — and it allows rescue partners to save even more lives.
Opportunity to Adopt
As a foster volunteer, you experience the love, connection, and purpose of helping an animal in need. If you develop a strong bond with a cat, you have the opportunity to apply for adoption and turn a temporary arrangement into a lifelong relationship.
Foster Responsibilities Include:
1
Short Term
For kittens/cats over 12 weeks old, already sterilized and need to be fostered for 1-5 days until they can be placed in a condo at one of the six pet supply stores where we adopt cats seven days a week.
2
Need Socialization
For kittens/cats over 12 weeks old, already sterilized and need to be fostered while they improve their socialization skills in order to become more adoptable.
3
Until Sterilization
For healthy kittens under 12 weeks who are weaned, eating on their own, and need to be fostered or further socialized until they are old enough to be sterilized and move to a condo once recovered from surgery.
4
Need Minor Treatment
For kittens/cats over 12 weeks, already sterilized and who need treament for minor health conditions. We want only healthy adoptable cats in the condos (time commitment is typically 1-2 weeks and then they return to the condos).
5
Newborn Kittens with a Mother
For newborn kittens with a mother who will nurse the kittens for 4-5 weeks until they are weaned. Click here for a video on what this entails.
6
Newborn Kittens without a Nursing Mother
For newborn kittens without a nursing mother who need to be bottle fed until they can eat on their own (around 5 weeks). Click here for a video on what this entails.
LCPA and/or our Rescue Partners will provide whatever you
don't have for the cats needs.
You will be supported by an experienced team.
You will get answers to any questions you have about fostering.
You will be guided along the way.
When you foster for our rescue partner, Traps to Laps, you will be assigned a Field Tech who will schedule visits for vaccinations, treat the kitten(s) for intestinal parasites and give flea prevention. At around 12 weeks the kittens are sterilized. Then they are medically ready for placement in the store condos to be adopted.
Our Rescue Partners
