SHAMEFUL OR ADMIRABLE?

Foster parents usually feel silly when they mention their “failure.” Abrera, on the other hand, was rather proud.

“The term is failure, yes, but I don’t see it as that because I love my cats like my own children. My struggles have been made more bearable by these babies . . . Even during terrible depressive episodes when I couldn’t feed myself, I would get out of bed just so they were fed and their litter boxes were cleaned.”

The point of fostering is to prepare an animal until one finds a good human willing to take care of them. Sometimes, however, one need not look far, what with an animal’s foster home being their future forever home all along.