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Fostering is one of the most meaningful ways to change an animal’s life. When you open your home to an animal in need, you give them comfort, safety, and the chance to heal, grow, and prepare for their forever family. Whether caring for kittens too young for adoption, supporting animals recovering from surgery, or providing a quiet space for those feeling overwhelmed in the shelter, foster carers play an essential role in saving lives.

Our Foster Care Program is designed to keep more animals safe, healthy, and supported, offering flexible opportunities for people of all lifestyles. AWLQ provides all food, bedding, supplies, and veterinary care; you provide the love. With every foster placement, you help reduce pressure on our rehoming centres, create vital space for incoming animals, and give vulnerable pets the personalised care they need to thrive. Becoming a foster carer means becoming part of a compassionate community dedicated to giving every animal the second chance they deserve.

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FOSTER OPPORTUNITIES

Foster Carer

Make a Life-Changing Difference - Become a Foster Carer!

Are you passionate about giving animals in need a safe and loving temporary home?

As a Foster Carer, you will provide short-term care for animals who need extra support before they are ready for adoption. This may include adult and underage animals, mothers with litters, cats, dogs, birds, and pocket pets, as well as animals recovering from surgery, receiving medication or simply needing rest, socialisation or a break from the shelter environment.

Fostering plays a vital role in our lifesaving work. You will feed, clean, monitor and nurture animals in your home while keeping in touch with our team about their progress.

We provide everything you need, including food, litter, medication and all required veterinary care. Your role is to offer stability, a safe environment and most importantly, the love that they need while they prepare for their forever homes.

Opening your home to an animal in need has a significant impact. Foster carers helps us save and transform the lives of the animals that come into our care.

We are looking for foster carers who are:

  • Able to provide a safe and secure indoor or outdoor environment
  • Patient, reliable and confident handling a variety of animals
  • Comfortable following AWLQ’s care guidelines and attending vet check-ups when required
  • Calm, caring and able to support animals who may be young, unwell or learning new behaviours

🚗 Transport: You must have reliable transport for regular vet appointments and any emergencies.
💛 Commitment: Foster periods vary from 1-8 weeks (or sometimes longer), depending on the animal’s needs.
🕒 Availability: Must be available for scheduled vet visits and daily feeding and care routines.
📍 Locations: Beenleigh, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Warra, Willawong (depending on foster animal availability)

Opening your home to an animal in need truly saves lives. You will help animals grow, recover and gain confidence so they can move on to their forever families.

Please ensure you read the full foster guidelines to confirm your home environment is suitable and that you meet all requirements for this program. Review our FAQs HERE.
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WHO WE ARE

                   

AWLQ is a leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of companion animals and the people who love them. Since 1959, we have worked to reunite lost pets, rehome animals in need, and provide affordable veterinary care through our community vet clinics. Guided by our values of integrity, innovation, optimism and compassion, we proudly operate with an “open admission” philosophy, never turning away a healthy, sociable or treatable animal. Our nationally recognised Getting to Zero model has helped reduce euthanasia rates and continues to set the benchmark for ethical, humane rehoming practices in Australia.

With the dedication of our staff, volunteers and supporters, we strive every day toward a future where every companion animal is safe, valued and given the chance to thrive.