FOSTER CARE
WE NEED FOSTER
CARE VOLUNTEERS AND PET PAL LEADERS
URGENTLY!
We are looking for unique
individuals to provide care for animals
with special needs. For more information
on Fostering visit our Foster page. We are
also looking for people who want to work
with kids and teach them how to volunteer
with animals. For Pet Pal Leader
Information, visit our Just for Kids Page
Foster Care
Work Location:
Right in your own home.
 Tasks,
Duties and Responsibilities: Very unique
individuals are required to provide
loving, attentive care to animals with
special needs. The animals placed in
foster care will require more attention
than the average pet and may not, in the
end, be placed up for adoption. Foster
Care Volunteers help us provide every
opportunity for an animal to thrive. This
could, for example, involve such tasks as
the following:
- Caring for a pregnant cat or dog while
we wait for the babies to be born.
- Caring for and socializing a litter of
kittens until they are ready to return
for adoption. They will be spayed or
neutered prior to adoption. This could
involve a high degree of care including
feedings every few hours initially.
- House training and socializing a dog.
This involves a great deal of love,
attention and patience.
- Fostering a boisterous, untrained dog
that needs to learn basic commands and
manners in order to become adoptable.
This may involve consultation with a
professional dog trainer as arranged by
the shelter.
In all cases, as a foster parent, you
will be able to provide exposure to
potential adopters outside the shelter
environment to enable it to find a loving
and permanent home. By introducing your
foster to friends, neighbours and
relatives, it allows GHS pets to reach new
potential adopters. Please note that all
foster animals must be applied for through
the regular means and all adopters must go
through the adoption process.
Skills, Qualifications, and
Physical Requirements:
It takes a caring, committed individual
with the time, patience and knowledge to
look after special needs animals.
For animals with house training issues, an
isolated room or area of the house with an
easily cleaned floor would be an asset.
The availability of a vehicle to transport
the animals to and from the shelter and to
a veterinarian if necessary.
These foster animals require someone who
is dependable and able to commit to a
regular and ongoing schedule of care.
Time Commitment:
This will be discussed at the time of
fostering, but it could involve a
commitment of anywhere from a few days to
several weeks.
If you take on this commitment, both the
Guelph Humane Society and the animal need
you to honour it. In emergency
circumstances, we will obviously find room
at the shelter or find another foster
home, but you need to realize that the
animal is counting on you.
 The
Guelph Humane Society will provide:
Training:
Volunteer Orientation – so you know and
understand how the organization works
One-on-one training with GHS staff geared
towards the needs of your particular
foster animal.
Equipment and supplies:
Food, leashes, head halter, towels,
bedding, etc.
Crate for transportation and for training
purposes.
Medication and all veterinary care,
providing you contact the shelter first
for approval.
Impact
By fostering a special needs animal, you
are giving that animal every opportunity
to become adoptable and enter into a
loving and permanent home.
Contact Person
If interested in becoming a Foster Care
Volunteer please fill out a foster
application. You will be contacted by the
Animal Health Supervisor for an interview.
Click here to download the Foster
Care Application in PDF format
Please note that the Foster
Care Program is not ideal for every
volunteer. We will try to match the Foster
Environment with the Animal’s needs. You
may not be contacted to foster for several
months. You are welcome to volunteer in
the shelter and we will keep you on our
volunteer list in the meantime.
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