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  WHY WAS PET FOSTERING SERVICE SCOTLAND STARTED AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
For many elderly owners their pet provides companionship, fun and a sense of security as well as having positive mental and physical effects on their health. If however, through accident or illness, they are temporarily unable to care for their much loved pet and relatives or neighbours are unable to help, many worry more about their pet's circumstances than their own, causing unnecessary stress.


 
 


The PFSS was started to help in such circumstances.
Holding a register of volunteer fosterers, dog walkers and people willing to support the service in other ways, it coordinates short-term foster care for companion animals throughout Scotland.

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  1. This minimises the anxiety and stress for both owner and pet during periods of separation.
2. The service maintains the owner's sense of involvement keeping them informed as to their pets well-being.
3. It ensures that the owner and pet are reunited at the end of foster period.		  
 
WHAT WE DON'T DO!
It must be stressed that this is an emergency care service, unique to Scotland and does not provide an alternative to boarding kennels for holidays, or people working abroad, nor is it a rehoming agency.

  
 
PET Fostering Service Scotland has now been in existence for 22 years and we are still unique! Admittedly there have been, and currently are, other projects in England offering pet fostering for specific clients or in limited geographical areas, but none has existed for so long, independent of any "parent" organisation, or functions as PFSS does, entirely run by volunteers who foster, organise, fund-raise, provide transport, advise, recruit, publicise and donate so that pet owners and their pets can be helped when an emergency arises.

We emphasise that we provide temporary pet care in emergencies - (many enquiries come from people who are not in a crisis but think that fostering means rehoming / is a cheaper alternative than kennels / is a good dumping ground for unwanted animals / has animals for sale / will look after pets whilst owners go on a cruise!). We endeavour to be flexible whilst sticking to our principle of providing for clients who have been unable to make alternative arrangements for the care of their pets when an emergency arose - because otherwise, we are alienating professional kennels/catteries and denying our services to those who genuinely merit it.

Look at the information about Emergency Pets Placement - it is an ideal scheme for those who DO have the opportunity to plan ahead - you might register with it yourself, or recommend it to friends or to enquirers who are not eligible for our service. It complements PFSS and should work well alongside us.

  
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Comparison of animals fostered in
2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006
  All Pets Dogs Cats Others                    
Total animals fostered 2000 242 164 69 9                    
Total animals fostered 2001 273 183 79 11                    
Total animals fostered 2002 213 129 63 21                    
Total animals fostered 2003 280 149 90 41                    
Total animals fostered 2004 290 177 91 22                    
Total animals fostered 2005 244 130 95 19                    
Total animals fostered 2006 219 131 81 7                    
                             
Total days fostered 2000 7424 3428 3718 278                    
Total days fostered 2001 10403 4970 3690 1743                    
Total days fostered 2002 7073 3158 3293 622                    
Total days fostered 2003 9454 4152 3078 2224                    
Total days fostered 2004 11235 4513 5799 923                    
Total days fostered 2005 11694 5931 4736 1027                    
Total days fostered 2006 8778 5377 3070 331                    
                             
Average stay - days 2000 30.7 20.9 53.9 30.9                    
Average stay - days 2001 38.1 27.2 46.7 158.5                    
Average stay - days 2002 33.2 24.5 52.3 29.6                    
Average stay - days 2003 33.8 27.9 34.2 54.2                    
Average stay - days 2004 38.7 25.5 63.7 42.0                    
Average stay - days 2005 47.9 45.6 49.9 54.1                    
Average stay - days 2006 40.1 41.0 37.9 47.3                    
                             
% dogs, cats, others 2000   67.8% 28.5% 3.7%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2001   67.0% 28.9% 4.0%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2002   60.6% 29.6% 9.9%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2003   53.2% 32.1% 14.6%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2004   61.0% 31.4% 7.6%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2005   53.3% 38.9% 7.8%                    
% dogs, cats, others 2006   59.8% 37.0% 3.2%                    
                             
Reasons for Fostering 2006 ratio % 2005 ratio % 2004 ratio % 2003 ratio % 2002 ratio % 2001 ratio % 2000 ratio %
Health 149 68.0% 156 63.9% 215 74.1% 213 76.1% 160 75.1% 194 71.1% 196 81.0%
Temp. Homeless 36 16.4% 52 21.3% 53 18.3% 39 13.9% 20 9.4%        
Woman's Aid 6 2.7% 7 2.9% 10 3.4% 10 3.6% 2 0.9% 23 8.4% 13 5.4%
Other reasons 28 12.8% 29 11.9% 12 4.1% 18 6.4% 31 14.6% 56 20.5% 33 13.6%
                             
Age groups 2006 ratio % 2005 ratio % 2004 ratio % 2003 ratio % 2002 ratio % 2001 ratio % 2000 ratio %
20 32 14.6% 47 19.3% 23 7.9% 26 9.3% 24 11.3% 28 10.3% 22 9.1%
30 43 19.6% 47 19.3% 45 15.5% 39 13.9% 25 11.7% 53 19.4% 28 11.6%
40 38 17.4% 33 13.5% 47 16.2% 58 20.7% 26 12.2% 37 13.6% 15 6.2%
50 36 16.4% 37 15.2% 79 27.2% 40 14.3% 37 17.4% 41 15.0% 43 17.8%
60+ 23 10.5% 36 14.8% 47 16.2% 56 20.0% 101 47.4% 113 41.4% 134 55.4%
70+ 47 21.5% 44 18.0% 49 16.9% 61 21.8%