Fostering is a vital part of our organization. It allows a dog/cat to experience a home environment in addition to freeing up space in our shelter for another animal in need.

Fostering entails providing care for a dog/cat while they wait for their forever home. We provide their vetting and food. You provide a home and love. An amazing foster will work on basic training (crate training, sit/stay, and general manners). This will make them more attractive to potential adopters and will better prepare the dog/cat for their forever home. We have an amazing foster coordinator that can answer all of your foster questions and provide useful tips/tricks/suggestions.

Fill out a Foster Application!

All animals are thoroughly reviewed by our team at Paws prior to acceptance, in order to help the most people and animals possible. To do so, we require you to send the animal's: date of birth, description of the animal (gender, breed, good with other animals, etc), any vetting that the animal has had (including vaccinations, neutering, heartworm or flea prevention), and photos. Until we recieve all of that information, we cannot make an informed decision.

We receive many inquiries daily from individuals wanting to re-home their pet. Be aware that most county shelters and animal rescues are regularly at full capacity.

It is illegal to dump animals at our rescue facility. Our property is under surveillance and those that do will be prosecuted.

We are legally unable to take in strays. Local animal control must be contacted to check for a microchip and to place the animal on a stray hold. After the stray hold is up, animal control will work with local rescues to pull the animal into their care.

It is illegal to dump animals at our rescue facility. Our property is under surveillance and those that do will be prosecuted.

Spaying/neutering your dog/cat can prevent many health and behavioral issues. Read Brown University’s article to learn more about the benefits of spay/neuter.

”Each year, millions of unwanted dogs and cats are euthanized (killed) at shelters across the country. Although pet behavioral problems are the main reasons animals are given to shelters, many orphans are the result of accidental breeding by free-roaming, unaltered pets. The more pets spayed or neutered, the fewer dogs and cats will have to be destroyed.”

-Brown University

https://www.brown.edu/Research/Colwill_Lab/CBP/spaynueter.htm

“Heartworm prevention for dogs is an important concern for every pet owner. Prevention is an important part of providing essential care…Heartworms are spread by mosquitoes, so any area of the country that has mosquitoes—even just a few of them—can also have heartworm disease.

Dogs don’t just need prevention during warm-weather months. Heartworm preventives work by treating heartworms that already infected the pet within the past month or longer; meanwhile, preventives need to be given on time, every time to be effective…

The American Heartworm Society estimates that more than a million dogs in the U.S. have heartworm disease—and heartworm disease can be fatal.”

-American Heartworm Society

https://www.heartwormsociety.org/pet-owner-resources/heartworm-prevention-for-dogs

“Fleas and ticks can carry and transmit diseases, which is why preventing infection is important. Preventatives are types of medication that can be safely and routinely given to deter fleas and ticks from biting your dog. They come in a variety of easy-use dosages and forms.

Fleas commonly cause tapeworm infections and skin infections (flea allergy dermatitis), whereas common tick-borne diseases include anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and more. Both fleas and tick-borne diseases can be zoonotic (meaning they are able to spread infections to humans), so keeping them off pets is also important to maintaining the health of the humans living and interacting with them.”

-Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/riney-canine-health-center/health-info/flea-and-tick-prevention