I celebrate this failure with you. She is beautiful!

Are you sure that’s not a cat in a dog costume?

It’s a bit tongue in cheek, but generally the idea of fostering is that it’s temporary. In my situation, my wife works for a local cat rescue and our family is one of many in the area that will temporarily foster cats who for one reason or another can’t be in the adoption lounge with the other cats. Usually during this time they are still actively looking for adopters, and the foster family are temporary. A foster who adopts a cat is great, but they may also be less willing to foster other cats after adopting one or more fosters, hence it’s a success that is also kind of a failure in that it diminishes the network of fosters, or can do.

Honey Pie came with her two litter mates because they were all way too young to be adopted initially (we now think they were as young as 5 weeks when they came to us), and because two of them had health issues. Honey has two hind legs that don’t work as you’d expect, and her brother Rocky has a life-shortening heart defect. Their Sister Penny has no health issues, but we ended up keeping all 3.

I think it’s because they were so little. They still act like our babies more than any of our other cats.

Here is all 3 of them when we first got them.

Foster fail usually means taking in an animal temporarily (instead of keeping them at a kennel) while they wait to be adopted, but ending up keeping them permanently due to falling in love with said animal.