The shelter sees many pets that would be highly adoptable, if they could just have a few weeks to recover from common ailments, like kennel cough or puppy mange. Pets with medically treatable conditions often would benefit from some TLC in the comfort of a home, or may need some help with socialization or training. All of these animals would make wonderful, loving pets, but they just don’t show well in the shelter next to cute fluffy speckled puppies or fuzzy, playful kittens. Happy Hearts fosters could be little black puppies, or the awkward, long legged 9 month old shepherd mix, or maybe the tubby tortoiseshell cat that hides in the corner. Some pets are healthy and adoptable, but just get overlooked. Fostering not only saves the life of the animal which is placed in a foster home, but also the one that can take his or her empty cage.Īlmost any animal in the shelter would benefit from foster care, and we have programs for all of them. We work very hard to find new homes for our animals for adoption and rescue, but the numbers being adopted or rescued never exceed (or even come close to meeting!) the number we receive. We recognized the need for a foster program as we continued to watch our numbers of incoming animals climb while our number of cages clearly remains static! Our goal is to end the euthanasia (putting to sleep) of any animal for space but we cannot do it alone. Pets that are in foster care truly benefit from some "TLC” and get the added benefit of being "marketed” by their foster family to potential adopters! It also provides an option for animals that are in need of medical treatment that would be difficult to provide in the shelter environment. Fostering can open up spaces and cages in the shelter allowing us to help more animals. Welcome to the Joplin Humane Society's "UNLEASH THEIR HOPE" Foster Program! Our foster care program is designed to get the community involved in saving lives by inviting them to provide temporary care for animals in need.
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