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 Foster
Homes Needed:
In the past our
foster care program has mainly consisted of staff
and a few other volunteers here and there. We would
like to expand this program so that we can save more
lives. Truthfully, very young kittens, sick animals,
and unsocialized animals just need more time in a
home before they come to the shelter to be adopted.
We have created a new foster care application and
hope to get a database of 15-20 committed foster
parents. Foster care can be a tough job- not all of
these animals will survive, and some of them may
need to be in foster care for months. Our hope is to
get a good group of foster parents that we can put
into our e-mail system and send mass e-mails to all
of them when we have an animal in need of foster
care, and hopefully have one of them reply back that
they are available to foster it. As a foster parent
you may be called on with very short notice. When
animals come in that need foster care, we need to
move them out as soon as possible because we rarely
have space to hold them for very long. If you have
thought carefully and feel you would be a good
foster parent, please come to the shelter and fill
out our application. We will also hold an initial
orientation for our new foster parents to answer any
questions and get them started. We plan to hold
foster adoption days “Foster Fun Days” where foster
parents can all bring their animals back to the
shelter for the day to be seen and hopefully
adopted. These events would be advertised and are
usually a big success. This will help keep the
number of animals in foster care more manageable.
With the help
of community members HART can save more animals and
operate more smoothly.
If you have
questions about these programs please call HART and
ask to speak to Alesha Rothberg, Shelter Manager.
Examples of animals
that would need fostercare.
*Pregnant mother
cats or dogs: 8 week minimum commitment
*Nursing
cats
or
dogs: until old enough to be adopted
*Injured/sick
cats or dogs - must be comfortable administering meds,
cleaning
wounds, etc.
*Dogs
with training issues
*Young
kittens or puppies
Some
animals take longer than others to get adopted. It is in
the best interest of the foster animal if they can stay
in foster care until adopted, which could potentially be
several months.
Application - Word
Application - PDF
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Intake
of cats at HART:
