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nne Hendricks, outreach coordinator with All 4 Paws Rescue, a nonprofit, foster-based, all-breed organization located in Malvern, is familiar with the most common excuse potential pet foster parents give. “They all say, ‚‘I could never foster because I would want to adopt them all,’” noted Hendricks, who has fostered more than 100 dogs over nine years. “We have all foster-failed at least once,” she added, referring to a foster dog she knew she would be keeping within the first 24 hours of fostering her. According to Kisha Reinmiller, site director for Pennsylvania SPCA Lancaster Center, many who foster do become adoptive pet parents. “We are always recruiting new fosters,” she shared. “A lot of them adopt for the first time.” Both organizations reported that becoming a foster parent for an animal is not complicated. The Lancaster Center application can be found online at www.pspca.org, and the All 4 Paws application is at www.all4pawsrescue.com.