Lifeline Animal Project Shelters Reaches Full Capacity And Puts Out An Urgent Plea For Foster Homes
Lifeline Animal Project Shelters Reaches Full Capacity And Puts Out An Urgent Plea For Foster Homes
July 27, 2021
LifeLine Animal Project’s Fulton and DeKalb County Animal Services shelters are full, and the organization is urgently seeking community members to foster dogs for just two weeks. A month ago, LifeLine held a successful fee-waived adoption event where 400 dogs and cats found homes. However, due to the high summer intake, the shelters are already at maximum capacity again, and LifeLine is asking those who can’t adopt to open up their homes and hearts to a shelter dog temporarily with a goal of placing 125 dogs in foster homes over the next two weeks, July 28 through August 11. LifeLine will provide vet care, supplies and support. To sign up, please visit LifeLineAnimal.org/foster-dogs.
Fostering a pet for any amount of time helps reduce overcrowding and opens up space for another animal to be saved. It also puts animals in a less stressful environment where their personalities can shine, allowing potential adopters to see what the animals are like in homes and facilitating quicker adoptions. Further, it’s a great way for people who cannot have an animal permanently, due to work travel or other commitments, to experience the love of an animal while saving a life.
And for those who don’t want to foster because they worry it will be too hard when their dog gets adopted or goes back to the shelter, LifeLine Fulton County Animal Services Foster Supervisor Michelle Harmon wants to reassure you that is not the case. “While it may be difficult to say goodbye initially, seeing the pup find a home and the satisfaction you’ll get from knowing that you saved their life will make it all worth it,” says Michelle.
According to Petco Love (formerly the Petco Foundation) if less than 2% of pet-owning households in the U.S. fostered one pet a year we could eliminate preventable euthanasia in the United States tomorrow. Save a life and foster a pet by visiting LifeLineAnimal.org/foster-dogs.
Fostering a pet for any amount of time helps reduce overcrowding and opens up space for another animal to be saved. It also puts animals in a less stressful environment where their personalities can shine, allowing potential adopters to see what the animals are like in homes and facilitating quicker adoptions. Further, it’s a great way for people who cannot have an animal permanently, due to work travel or other commitments, to experience the love of an animal while saving a life.
And for those who don’t want to foster because they worry it will be too hard when their dog gets adopted or goes back to the shelter, LifeLine Fulton County Animal Services Foster Supervisor Michelle Harmon wants to reassure you that is not the case. “While it may be difficult to say goodbye initially, seeing the pup find a home and the satisfaction you’ll get from knowing that you saved their life will make it all worth it,” says Michelle.
According to Petco Love (formerly the Petco Foundation) if less than 2% of pet-owning households in the U.S. fostered one pet a year we could eliminate preventable euthanasia in the United States tomorrow. Save a life and foster a pet by visiting LifeLineAnimal.org/foster-dogs.