New website will help the most urgent pets
in animal shelters find temporary homes
Throughout our years of blogging it has been our pleasure to share news/information from Petfinder.com and we are grateful for all of the animals they have helped find forever homes. We have family members who have adopted pets from Petfinder! Now we are proud to share some news that we received from the founder of Petfinder.com, Betsy Saul, announcing the launch of her newest mission-driven website, 911fosterpets.com.
The mission of 911fosterpets.com is simple:
create a foster revolution
to give these pets the extra time
they need so they can live
“While we have found over 25 million forever homes for adoptable pets at petfinder.com,” Saul says, “pets’ lives are still being lost daily purely due to lack of space or unrealistic time limits on length of stay at a shelter. I am still haunted by some of the special souls I met along the way that just needed extra time to find homes. Our new website, 911fosterpets.com, will be dedicated to finding short-term foster families for these urgent animals.”
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Eric Theis, who, with his wife, Traci, is a co-founder of the site, says, “People don’t realize that many pets about to be destroyed only need a temporary place to crash--sometimes less than a week. Then these pets will be moved to a rescue group or to their new forever homes. I have to believe if people knew they could save a puppy or kitten’s life by letting it stay with them for a few days, they would act now to save them. We are providing that platform.”
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The site is easy to use. Animal shelters post pets that are urgent (typically meaning they will be destroyed in 72 hours or less) and potential foster families view them. Foster families can search the urgent pets in their community with various search criteria, including length of time they can foster a pet–starting with less than one week. Once a foster family sees a pet they would like to help, they simply click the foster button to be connected with the shelter where the pet is currently housed. Individuals can also sign up at 911fosterpets.com to be notified when new urgent pets in their community are posted.
“This will only work,” Traci Theis adds, “if caring people step up and provide short-term shelter for these urgent pets. We’re confident that there are thousands of people who want to make a tangible difference in pets’ lives but cannot make a long-term commitment. Now they will have an opportunity. 911fosterpets.com will introduce them to the pets who so urgently need them.”
To learn more visitwww.911fosterpets.com |
This sounds AWESOME! This is a shelter pet population that could use all the help it can get.
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DeleteThis is such a fantastic idea! We searched it, but it brought up only pets from 400 miles away, so maybe it's not fully populated yet. It seems like it will be a really good way to help the part of the shelter population who needs help most.
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