Become a Foster
Approximately 4.2 million dogs and 3.4 million are cats enter animal shelters nationwide every year. Each year, approximately 1.3 million dogs and 1.4 million cats are euthanized.
Statistics provided by The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , Feb 19, 2023
Fostering animals plays a crucial role in our ability to continue to provide them with a safe and loving environment until they are able to be adopted.
Without dedicated fosters, we are limited to the number of animals we can save, as our rescue facilities have very limited space. Fostering not only helps us save more lives, but it also gives animals a chance to experience a loving and safe home environment, helping them adjust and socialize before being adopted.
As fosters open their hearts and homes to these animals, they become an integral part of our rescue mission, ensuring that more animals have a second chance at a happy and fulfilled life.
Your role as a foster parent goes beyond just providing a safe and comfortable environment; you also have the opportunity to make a significant impact on a life by providing valuable feedback on their behavior and personality. This feedback can greatly assist in finding them their perfect furr-ever home.
Alternatively, if fostering is not feasible for you, please consider making a donation to help support the care and well-being of these animals.
Why Foster?
Fosters Get Adopted
When you foster you help assess the pet in the natural home environment. Pets thrive in situations where they feel safe and supported. Being in a home environment allows them to interact with you and your family. This allows you to assess them and advise us which family will be best for them to be adopted into.
Provides Sense of Security
Can you imagine being alone in a shelter, with sounds and smells you don't understand and people you don't know? Neither can we! Which is why fosters are so important to a pet's mental and physical health. Foster homes allow animals to decompress in a nurturing environment.
Improves Health
Shelters are scary places! Oftentimes animals are on "hyper alert" when they are in the shelter, meaning they display personality tendencies that are not normally their own, and that can discourage potential adopters. Foster homes also allow animals to heal physically if they were injured.
You Help Save Lives
By fostering you are directly responsible for saving a life! You help the pet feel loved and safe, and you receive all their love and attention in return.
In addition, by generously opening your home you allow us to have more space in our clinic to rescue more pets. It's a win-win!
Can't Foster? You can STILL HELP!
We understand that not everyone can foster, however we do believe everyone has a voice and has something to give. If you are interested in sponsoring one of our animals currently in our care please click here to learn how to donate. And if you are unable to donate at this time please visit our social media pages and help spread our message. With your help we can continue our life-saving mission and work to find homes for all of our animals!
