Sherbrooke Community Centre home to adorable adoptables

Alison Fox is the manager of the therapy department at Sherbrooke Community Centre, and has been a foster mom herself for Saskatoon Street Cat Rescue.
“We are moving away from the medical model, and more towards creating all the things in a home that you would have in your home, such as pets and animals and plants and children,” Fox explains. “I had in my brain for about a year, I was thinking of, how could I make these two worlds collide? How could I create these two passions in one place?”
Alison decided to bring her love of helping animals with her joy of engaging with residents by
introducing a foster cat program right inside the long term care home.
The first round of adorable adoptables joined Sherbrooke in 2019. Since then, there have been 48 foster cats and kittens that have earned the love and friendships from residents.
Lorraine Sauve and Linda Miller are long-term residents at Sherbrooke, who have both been enjoying
the feline antics from outside the glass room. They say watching the kittens is better than anything on
TV.
Radio feature and video feature by 650 CKOM's Alex Brown.