How does fostering work?
Fostering a pet is quite simple -- it begins when you volunteer to care for a homeless pet in your home. You take the pet home from the shelter and provide love, nourishment and proper veterinary care until it finds a forever home, either through shelter contacts, personal visits or adopt-a-thons.
How does fostering saving lives?
By fostering you are not only saving the life of your foster pet (by ensuring he or she goes to a good home), but you also make room for another animal at the shelter. Fostering helped the Humane Society of Dickson County improve our adoption rate by 32% in 2004 -- an increase of more than 200 lives saved!
Opportunities to Foster
The Humane Society offers a variety of opportunities to foster. We need loving foster homes for the following types of pets:
- Pregnant cats and dogs - need foster homes from pregnancy until their offspring are 6 weeks old
- Mom pets with nursing babies
- Kittens
- Cats of all ages
- Puppies
- Dogs of all ages
- Injured or special-needs pets
- Pets waiting to be transported out of state
How long will I foster?
Foster times vary from a few days to a few months -- it depends on the type of pet.
