FOUR PAWS guide to Becoming 
a Pet Foster Parent 

Animal shelters are often overcrowded, and shelter staff may lack the time to really spend with individual animals. If that animal is suffering from an illness or has had a distressing past, it can take time for them to recover and to be ready for adoption. Pet fostering can play a vital role in this recovery period – helping individual animals that need a bit of extra love and care and getting them ready for their forever home. 

Is pet fostering for you?

Pet fostering provides temporary care to shelter animals who need to live in a home environment prior to adoption. A foster parent or family may share their home with their foster pet for a long or short time, depending on the pet’s needs and how long it takes for them to be adopted. Anyone who is thinking of fostering must keep this in mind. The longer you spend with an animal, the harder the parting will be. If a foster family and their pet really hit it off, the foster home may become a permanent home with the foster family deciding to adopt their foster pet. 

Foster dog

How Fostering Helps to Save Lives

A win for the shelter, the animal and you!

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Dog and cat

Are You Ready to Become a Fosterer?

Foster parent’s guide

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Cat

7 Reasons for Fostering a Pet

Make a difference – become a fosterer

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Cat and her owner

How you can Become a Fosterer

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Dog

Alternatives to Having Your Own Pet

Maybe you cannot commit to having a pet? We show you other options for enjoying pets without having your own 

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Saying goodbye to your foster pet

The hardest part of fostering may very well be when you let your foster pet go onto their new adoptive home. This can be hard especially if you have become very attached to them.  But you should be proud and happy that you could accompany “your” foster pet on its road to its forever home and open your heart for the next one. If after a time with your foster pet you cannot imagine a life without them, then there may be the option to adopt them and provide the forever home they need.

Puppies in a shelter

 The Beauty of Adoption 


It’s a way of giving a loving new home to a shelter animal 

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