Fostering Pets in Your Home

We believe that the young, abandoned, sick, abused, and stressed animals that enter our shelter deserve to have the best possible chance at finding a loving, permanent home. A foster parent has one of the most important jobs at the shelter. Foster parents allow our animals to receive the proper care and attention they deserve as they wait for adoption. As a foster parent you’ll not only save the lives of animals in your care, but you’ll give other animals coming into the shelter who may not need the same level of medical attention, a space on our adoption floor to find their own loving homes. If those aren’t enough reasons to become a foster parent, consider these:

• Foster animals are temporary companions offering their love freely
• You’ll be helping to socialize a shelter animal so they become more adoptable and better companions
• You can put that spare bedroom to good use
• Fostering helps you explore many different breeds of dogs, cats, rabbits and small animals
• If for some reason you can’t keep a full-time companion animal, fostering for short time periods is an ideal solution
• You’ll know that you’re making a huge difference in the lives of your fosters and other animals at the shelter

At KC Pet Project, we are working to build programs to help families stay together. We often have families come to us in need of a little bit of time, in a variety of situations. We see people who are experiencing housing or financial issues or maybe an owner who is in the hospital, and they need some time to find placement for their pet. Instead of separating those families through owner relinquishment and finding a new home for their pet, we want to provide a temporary home for their pet with a foster family through our Home Away from Home Program.

We are now taking signups for you to provide this temporary relief for a pet and a family in need in our community.