You will find the experience very rewarding as not only will you be able to follow your chosen animal friend’s life at the rescue centre, but also the funds you are donating will enable the rescue centre to free up some of their money to care for other animals. So in effect you will be helping more than one animal.
At some point in the future, if your circumstances change and you are able, you may decide that you want to offer your sponsored animal a forever home, but if this is not the case, you can still be happy in the knowledge that you have helped an animal in distress secure a place in a safe haven until that animal can be adopted by someone else that is in a position to do so.