

I love any blind cat … as anyone will tell you, once you have a blind cat, you’ll always have one.”Īnd what Boger does for these cats by fostering and promoting them on her Instagram feed is life-changing for them, whether or not they have special needs. “I try to reserve space in the house for cats with medical needs I’m a sucker for medical cases, like when a cat has had a leg removed, eyes removed. “We foster a lot of special needs cases,” Jen said. Jen has been the cat intake coordinator at the Arlington-based LDCRF for six years, and the cats she likes to bring home are those who need a little extra help. On the page, you will find adorable images and videos ofĪll Jen Boger’s current cat residents and fosters, many with disabilities. While fostering cats and kittens with special needs might seem like a full time job, Jen and her husband Ian have full time jobs too. And then the other cats you see are all the cats I foster,” through Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation.īoger also works with City Kitties DC and helps with a group in Chincoteague periodically. Now, it features my five resident cats, who are all foster fails. “I started the account a really long time ago specifically to post pictures of my cat, Pokey (whose nickname is Pokey Pot Pie), so the page is named after him … It was originally a place for me to post photos and updates about him and it has continued to be a page for me to post cat-related content.

Jen and Ian typically foster a few cats at a time, and until they are adopted, they are all regularly featured on the very popular Instagram feed along with their ever popular resident cats. In fact, with more than 160,000 followers hailing from places all over the world, local resident Jen Boger leverages her Instagram account, to improve life for cats on a global scale.įrom the handle Jen posts on behalf of what she has dubbed “The Playschool for Wayward Kittens,” the rotation of cats that she and her husband, Ian, foster in their home. Not every social media influencer is in it for self-promotion and profit, though. Instagram – the ubiquitous social media platform – has given rise to Internet celebrities and influencers. Poppy, Petunia and Peggy, kitten fosters with Jen Boger of The three kittens have eye defects.
