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Welcome to our Foster Section! This is the place to find
information on fostering a friend from the
New Albany Animal Shelter. We are working very hard to build up our
foster program - it literally saves lives! Sometimes we may need a foster
home for just a few days or a couple of weeks. Other times, the placement
may be longer as we try to find a forever home for a particular friend.
If you have room in your heart and your home for a temporary friend, we
need you!! The links on the left should help you find what you are looking
for. Enjoy, and if we can do anything to help you,
Listed below are the most recent articles - news and Foster
stories. You may also browse all articles
by month and title. If you have a happy Foster story to share with
us, please let us know by e-mailin us at adopt@fcarl.org or just send
it with a picture via regular mail to:
Floyd County Animal Rescue League,
Happy Foster Story
P.O. Box 285
New Albany, IN 47151-0285
Hope we hear from you!
Foster News & Stories
Apr 22, 08 | 9:41 am
Pet Foster Parents Needed!
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Announcing a new partnership: FCARL and the New Albany Floyd County Anim Control and Shelter are teaming up to provide a foster program for shelter animals. Dogs and cats will need foster homes from time to time to heal from medical procedures, await transfer to another rescue, socialization, or a variety of other reasons. Most foster stays will be relatively short but are very important to the welfare of the animals. We need foster parents! No special skills required- just a love of animals and ability to provide day to day care. We will host a training class to prepare you and answer questions. Do you have room in your heart and home to provide short term care for a dog or cat in need? If the answer is yes, please send an email with your name, contact information and what type of animal(s) you can foster to Sandy Payne, FCARL foster coordinator @ sandyfcarl@yahoo.com or call Sandy at 502-380-6705. Thanks for helping us help the animals.
Mar 21, 06 | 3:31 pm
Why I Foster Shelter Animals
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I have been fostering and volunteering with the Floyd County Animal Rescue League & Shelter for two years now & have found it to be a truly rewarding experience. I have had the opportunity to share my home to cats and dogs that are on their way to rescue and countless mothers and kittens or puppies as the case may be.
I had one mother that really touched me. She was a mini-Eskimo & she had three tiny puppies. I was contacted by the shelter to see if I could help them out & since my spare bedroom was available, I went down & picked them up. The staff gave me the medicines that they were to receive & I took them in & put them up in a baby playpen, a perfect place to keep them from getting hurt or lost. I kept them from before their eyes were fully open until they were learning how to play & be house broken. I hated to give them up, but each time I took them back to the shelter to be wormed or to just see how things were going, people would be just drawn to them. When they finally went back for adoption, they had the greatest personalities & they had been in a home environment that would allow them to know what the kitchen door was, and that the vacuum wasn’t an evil monster, which wouldn’t have been the case if they were in the shelter.
 
To foster is easy. It doesn’t take too much time, money or room to make a difference in the life of a kitten, puppy or an older cat or dog that just needs time to be a pet & not in a crate. It can be joyful, sometimes frustrating and it gives you more than you think in terms of helping an animal get a second lease on life. Make a difference in a deserving cat or dog’s life by being a foster.
Chester spent two weeks in foster care. He was there while a transport could be arranged to get him to the rescue group, which was going to help him find his forever home. He went into foster care because his kennel was needed for another dog that was waiting for their forever home. Who could say no to fostering this little guy?
Chester
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Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. ~ Albert Einstein
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New Albany, IN 47150
(812)948-5355
Hours
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Saturday
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