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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FOSTER A PET?

With so many pets filling up shelter space, fostering gives dogs and cats more time to find homes.

Fostering saves lives and is a great opportunity to:

Volunteer
Contribute to the community
Teach children the responsibilities of pet care
Find the right type of pet for you and your family

Local animal shelters euthanize dozens of healthy and well-behaved dogs and cats every day to make room for even more animals coming into the shelter.

No-kill rescue groups must turn away hundreds of adoptable animals each week also due to a lack of space.

Foster parents also allow pets to receive care that is difficult in a shelter environment: the very young who've been orphaned or are developing their immune systems, animals recovering from surgery, or those in need of extra time to feel more confident, learn basic training, or a break from the shelter.

That’s what success looks like. The [pets] grow, get the necessary health care and then are adopted into another family that will keep them. By loving the abandoned animals in the short-term, the Rogers family provides them a jump-start on a long, healthy life. “I always play with them and fill up their food and water bowls before school,” he says. “It’s more just love and attention.”

After giving so much, letting go can be difficult. “The first set was really hard. They’re so cute, and you watch them grow up,” says Will about returning the foster animals to be adopted. “But you know there’s another set coming.”

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