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Women's Animal Center Seeks Foster Parents For Kittens

The Bensalem-based animal shelter expressed an "urgent need" to find volunteers to help bottle-feed kittens too young for adoption.

The Women's Animal Center in Bensalem is putting out a request due to an urgent need for foster parents to take care of kittens.
The Women's Animal Center in Bensalem is putting out a request due to an urgent need for foster parents to take care of kittens. (Women's Animal Center)

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA — The Women's Animal Center is expressing an "urgent need" to find foster parents to help bottle-feed shelter kittens who are newborns to less than six weeks old.

America's oldest animal shelter is seeking "Kitten Foster Volunteers" to care for kittens too young for adoption in their homes until they are ready to be adopted into loving forever homes, officials said.

Officials said that fosters will need to be able to provide a separate room or space from any of their own animals, as well as transportation to and from the Women’s Animal Center for necessary medical treatment.

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Additionally, foster volunteers must live in Pennsylvania within a 20-mile radius of the Women’s Animal Center.

The center will provide a training session to help volunteers be successful foster parents as well as a "Foster Starter Kit" with kitten care supplies. No experience is necessary.

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Foster parents are essential for young kittens who are too young, small, and fragile to survive without the attention, support, and compassionate care of dedicated volunteers, officials said.

Click here to fill out a foster application form on the Women’s Animal Center’s website

About Women’s Animal Center

In addition to Animal Sheltering and Adoptions, Women’s Animal Center provides a variety of vital services, including dog training, animal enrichment programs, veterinary services, and community education programs.

The hospital is among 15 percent of hospitals in North America to be accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association. All proceeds raised through veterinary service fees support the shelter
of surrendered and stray animals under the organization’s care.

The Women’s Animal Center is located at 3839 Richlieu Road, Bensalem, and can be reached by phone: 215-750-5252.

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