Grizzly and Taffy have both been in their respective foster homes for several months now and are hoping the New Year brings a new forever home.
Grizzly is a blind senior chow mix. He enjoys walks in the park and being blind does not hold him back at all. In fact, people who meet him find it hard to believe he is blind! He will make a great companion for a lucky family and deserves to live out the rest of his years in a loving forever home.
Taffy is approximately 10 years old and is a greyhound/shepherd mix with a hint of pittie. She weighs around 40 pounds and is lean like a greyhound. She is good with all other dogs, kids and is very easy going. Once Grizzly and Taffy move on to new homes, the current pet foster parents can take in another dog in need, and there are many out there.
Fostering a pet helps in many ways but the most important is to keep the animal out of an animal shelter and in a home environment. Despite the best efforts of staff, a shelter can be a stressful place for a pet and can often cause them to shut down, become depressed or behave differently.
With the pet in a loving foster home, it will be much less prone to become depressed and its true personality can shine, plus the foster parent can pass along more information about the pet’s personality to potential adopters which helps with making the right match for adoption.
Similarly, when fostering for a rescue group, this allows the rescue team to be able to get more pets out of the shelter and into foster homes while they await adoption. Quite a lot of our local rescue groups do not have physical facilities where they can keep animals, or if they do, there are not many spaces. So without foster homes to help house and take care of the animals, the rescue groups become limited on how many pets they can save from bad situations or pull from shelters.
Each animal organization has a different setup for how their fostering program works but many cover the veterinary bills for the foster animal and will often help with food, pet meds, pet advice, cat litter, spay/neuter and other pet supplies.
Local animal shelters and rescue groups are always in need of pet foster parents to support the mission of saving the lives of homeless pets.
A lot of times the foster family falls in love with the foster pet and adopts them themselves. When a family adopts a foster pet it’s known as a ‘foster failure’ but I see it as a success if the animal finds a loving forever home. I have a few of my own ‘foster failures’ at home!
For more information about Grizzly or Taffy, or if you are interested in changing their lives by adopting them, please contact Dconway1327@gmail.com. They are not together and do not need to be rehomed together.
If you think you would like to become a pet foster parent, email volusiacountypets@gmail.com and I may be able to match you up with an organization that needs some help.
— Contact Jane Davis at volusiacountypets@gmail.com.
