Fosters truly are the FRONT LINE for these animals & a critical step in saving more lives! A foster home is a temporary living situation for animals while they are awaiting placement in a permanent home. Foster families provide shelter, food, care, love, and guidance. The number of animals we can save depends entirely on the number of people who will open their homes and hearts to foster them. For some of these animals, this will be their first experience being treated as a family pet. You are their salvation and you should never underestimate the important role you are playing in their lives!
Fostering is one of the best ways to help us save animals. Being a foster family has rewards beyond the essential value of helping a pet in need find a new home. For some, it’s a chance to enjoy the companionship of an animal without making a lifetime commitment, or to find the perfect match for an existing pet.
Foster care is critical to our rescue efforts — it allows us to save far more animals than we could in a shelter environment alone. It gives pets a calm, loving environment — especially those who don’t do well in a shelter setting. Young kittens, pregnant cats, and neonates especially thrive in foster homes, where they can grow strong and healthy.
Our dogs rely entirely on foster homes, and our capacity to adopt out dogs depends directly on compassionate people like you.
Becoming a foster is an incredibly rewarding experience — and often a lot of fun. There may be tears when your foster finds their forever home, but knowing you’ve saved a life and opened up space to save another is truly special.
Fosters will keep animals an average of 4-8 weeks. Some pets need more time because of age, illness, injury, or behavior issues. Your time commitment will be discussed up-front before you agree to foster the pet, but most foster families keep the animal until the animal gets adopted.
