CNHS provides all of the supplies you will need for the animals you foster. This includes food, litter, bedding, toys, and medical care. Foster parents are responsible for traveling to and from the shelter for medical care and foster appointments.

The main duties of a foster are to provide a safe, loving environment and to care for the animal’s daily needs and any medical needs, as instructed by CNHS staff.

Each foster experience is unique and may last anywhere from two weeks to several month, depending on the animal’s needs.

If you are fostering an animal with a contagious illness, it should be kept separate from your animals at all time to prevent spread of illness. If fostering an animal without any known illnesses, we recommend quarantining the animal for two weeks before introducing them to your pets. Interactions between fosters and resident pets should always be supervised. Foster animals should be kept separate from other animals whenever the foster is unable to supervise. 

There is always a health risk to exposing your pets to new animals. This risk is greatly decreased if your animals are up to date on vaccinations and given proper introductions. CNHS cannot be held responsible for any illness or injury your pet may sustain from a foster animal.

• Foster homes give us a better understanding of how specific animals will act in a home environment. Oftentimes, an animal’s behavior outside of the shelter is much different than what we experience at CNHS. Getting feedback from the foster home helps us determine which adoptive homes are a good fit for each animal.
• Fostering allows a shelter animal to live comfortably while waiting for their forever home
• When animals are transferred to foster homes, it opens up much needed kennel space at CNHS, allowing us to accept and help more animals.
• Fostering enables you to touch the lives of many animals over the course of time