Interested in fostering a pet in your home? Wonderful, we need people just like you.

Fostering helps pets get out of the shelter environment and into loving homes to mirror what should be a normal life for a pet.

Fostering shelter pets helps pets decompress, be reminded of household boundaries, adjust to home life experiences like other pets, kids, family members, etc. 

How Long Must I Foster? 

You can opt to foster for as few as three weeks or as long as three months. Potential adopters will arrange with our animal care staff to meet your foster pet at our center, and we provide any medical care for the pet while they are in your foster care. 

When a potential adopter wants to meet the pet in your care, you will hear from a staff member who will arrange the meet-up with you.

What if I Need a Little Time to Decide to Adopt?

You may want to consider our Foster2Adopt program, which allows you to foster with an "adoption hold" listed in your name.

If someone expresses a desire to adopt the pet while you are fostering, you would be given the option to adopt or bring the pet in for a meet-and-greet with the prospective adopter.

Sign up to Foster a Pet in Need

Our sign-up process is quick and easy, tell us a little bit more about you by completing this form. 

Kitten Fostering

Over 5,500 kittens are brought to our shelter every year, but that can often do more harm than good. Learn more about what to do when you find kittens in your neighborhood.

When we do receive kittens, we operate an on-site Kitten Nursery to respond to their critical needs.  This dedicated space is a place where community pet lovers like yourself can come and help us care for the feline babies while we work toward finding them a foster home or rescue partner to ensure their immediate care. 

How Can I Help You Help Kittens in Need?

In the spring, we often receive more kittens in need of round-the-clock care than we can respond to. You can help us help kittens by fostering and taking care of them in your home.  We have short-term (overnight) and long-term fostering opportunities. 

Sign up here to tell us more about you and apply to help foster kittens in need.