Fostering a pet can be a rewarding and worthwhile experience

For people who love animals but don’t want the commitment involved in having a full-time pet, fostering can be a win-win option, writes Georgina O’Halloran.

ACCORDING to Margaret Twohig, a spokeswoman for a Co Cork-based rescue centre for dogs, “Fosterers are like gold dust, they do amazing work and we simply couldn’t survive without them”.

Cork Dog Action Welfare, known as Cork DAWG, takes in between 700 and 800 dogs and puppies a year that have been abandoned by their owners.