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Foster Care Program
The Atlanta Humane Society's Animal Care and Animal Receiving Center can accommodate anywhere between 200 and 300 animals at any one time (mostly cats/kittens and dogs/puppies). Optimum conditions allow the Society to process these animals and place them for adoption as quickly as possible. Since there is no time limit on an animal's stay awaiting adoption, there are animals that have found a safe haven at the Shelter for as long as a year before finding a home.
Over the past three years (2005, 2006, 2007) the Society has accomplished 13,561 successful adoptions. This represents close to 100% save rate of adoptable animals finding homes. Now, the Society has the opportunity to consider expanding it's program to help animals which until presently the society was un-able to accommodate through our adoption program because of illness or disposition problems.
Our Foster Program allows fosterlings with qualified solvable and workable problems to be nursed back to physical and psychological health, allowing these animals that important second chance for life. This program is one of the AHS's efforts to increase adoption rates.
The program is manned by dedicated and committed staff and screened volunteers. Fostering means the placement of special- care animals into nurturing temporary care situations until they are suitable for the adoption program. Although the definition is simple, the process to be successful requires precise and careful guidelines.
For more information about the Foster Care Program, please contact Barrett Henderson, Volunteer Foster Care Coordinator, by email at fostercare@atlantahumane.org.