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Become a pet foster

Every year animal foster parents save the lives of hundreds of animals by giving them a second chance. Fostering animals takes a great deal of attention and affection. Foster animals may have lived a difficult life before coming into a foster home. The love and attention from animal foster parents will help heal the animal's psychological wounds and make them a more adoptable pet. If you love animals, we strongly encourage you to volunteer as a pet foster.

Before you start as an pet foster and bring your foster animal home, learn as much as you can about pet care and pet health. You can find information online about animal feeding, pet grooming, and dog training. You can volunteer at an animal shelter, and under close supervision, improve your knowledge of pets.

Understand that pet fosters need a pet friendly home. Initially you will need to keep foster animals away from your own pets. Prepare a warm and comfortable escape-proof place dedicated to the foster animal.

Fostering pets requires a great amount of time and energy - both emotional and physical. Don't overextend yourself by fostering animals too frequently, pace yourself.

The reality is that many animals in shelters come from unknown backgrounds. Despite your best efforts as a pet foster, understand that some foster animals will not survive.

The hardest part of fostering can be returning the animal to the shelter. Often pet fosters will adopt their foster animal, but when that's not the case, return your foster for adoption.

The rewards of pet fostering are many, remember that you are giving these animals a second chance to find a loving "forever home".

Dedicated to our cat Raider, who lived his life by sharing all the love he had within him. We hope to show as much love to all of our foster animals. more about Raider