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When fostering kittens isn't cute

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Recently you may have seen some social media posts from me about a trio of foster kittens. You may have also noticed that soon after getting said foster kittens I went radio silent on what happened to them (unless you asked me). And if you asked me about them, you probably got a version of this story: Fostering kittens for me was a disaster. And let me tell a cautionary tale if you're ever thinking about fostering kittens.   I had been thinking about fostering for some time when I decided to take the plunge. I wanted to foster because my cat was born in the wild and rescued at a month old. She came to us still quite skittish after being at the rescue so we had to spend a lot of time with her to get her happy and comfy with us and humans in general. So therefore I wanted other kittens like her to have a chance to live the comfy life, and I thought I had the patience from going through a similar process with Smudge already. All the kitten fostering videos I had seen seemed to show th...