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Join Our Community of Homeowners Making a Difference
We believe that fostering a pet is not just about providing a temporary home—it’s about saving lives and creating lifelong memories. As a homeowner, you have the unique opportunity to make a significant impact in your community by becoming a foster parent.
Featured Dog
Honey
Urgent Foster or Adoption Needed for Honey
Meet Honey, a lovable female dog in need of a new home! Honey has been through a lot and deserves a loving family to call her own. She is currently with a foster, but due to a new female dog in the home, Honey has become reactive, and she urgently needs a place without other female dogs. Her current situation is critical—if we can’t find a home for Honey soon, she may be euthanized.
Honey deserves a second chance and a forever couch to call her own. Please help us save her life! If you’re considering adopting or fostering Honey, reach out to RescueVet at (901) 500-7556. Proper dog introductions are recommended, and we can help with this to ensure Honey transitions well.
Please share this post and help Honey find a safe and loving home. Together, we can save her!
Why foster?
If you’re thinking about fostering a dog, here are several compelling reasons why you should consider taking this rewarding step:
- Flexibility: Fostering offers a flexible commitment that can fit into any lifestyle. Whether you have a few hours for a foster field trip or a few months for a longer-term stay, we have options that suit your schedule.
- No Long-Term Commitment: Enjoy the companionship of a pet without the long-term commitment. Fostering is perfect for those who love animals but are not ready for a permanent adoption.
- Support and Resources: We provide all necessary supplies and resources, including food, medical care, and training guides, to ensure a smooth fostering experience.
Overcoming Barriers
We understand that fostering can seem daunting, but here are some ways we help overcome common barriers:
- Cost Concerns: Memphis Animal Services covers all essential costs, including food and medical care, so you can focus on providing love and care.
- Time Constraints: With various fostering options, you can choose a commitment level that fits your busy lifestyle. From short-term field trips to longer stays, there’s something for everyone.
- Lack of Experience: No prior experience is necessary! We offer comprehensive training and support to help you confidently care for your foster pet.
Benefits of Fostering
When you open your home to a pet in need, fostering a dog can bring joy and companionship to various lifestyles:
- Families with Kids: Dogs can teach children responsibility, empathy, and compassion. They also provide endless fun and energy, making them perfect playmates.
- Single Homeowners: A dog can offer companionship and security, making your home feel warmer and more welcoming.
- Couples: Caring for a dog together can strengthen your bond and provide shared experiences and memories.
- Anyone Who Works from Home: Dogs can reduce stress and increase productivity by encouraging regular breaks and physical activity.
Dogs Urgently in Need of Fosters at the Memphis Shelter!
Click to view videos of our dogs on YouTube!
This channel showcases dogs at Memphis Animal Services that are available to foster and adopt. These videos are also on each dog’s profile through the shelter’s website!
Ready to foster and save a life?
Please help these dogs before it's too late!!
Get Involved!
Join a community of compassionate homeowners who are making a difference. By fostering, you are helping to save lives and give pets a second chance at finding their forever homes.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Contact us today to learn more about how you can become a foster parent and help us continue our mission of saving lives in Memphis.
The Benefits of Foster Programs
- Foster reduces pets’ stress levels.
- Pets in foster have improved wellbeing compared to pets in the shelter.
- Organizations can learn more about pets’ personalities while they’re in foster homes.
- Foster placement leads to increases in positive outcomes for pets.
- The pet gets an advocate who often helps market them for adoption and continues to be involved in their life at the shelter.
- The shelter gets information on the pet’s behavior in a home, which can be different than what is seen in the shelter.
- It increases shelter pets’ visibility in the community.
- The opportunity to get great photos of the pet in a home environment and out and about.
- It leads to a quieter shelter, which benefits the staff and resident pets.
- Pets going to foster homes help to open up space at the shelter.
- Pets aren’t exposed to as many pathogens as in a shelter
- Short-term foster options are the “gateway” to more fostering. Not everyone can foster long-term. Short-term programs lower the bar and allow more people to participate in fostering.
- The organization engages with their community in a positive way.
Each dog above is on the critical list, which means they need fosters immediately. If you would like to see all of the dogs available at the shelter, click the link below.
Interested in supporting one of these critical dogs? Your pledge could make a difference!
What is a Pledge?
A pledge is an incentive for a rescue to pull a dog from a shelter. The pledges will go to the rescue for that specific dog’s expenses, mostly for their medical needs.
Foster + Pledge = Saves a Critical Dog’s Life!
To pledge, follow these steps:
- Visit the Critical Memphis Animals Facebook page
- Find a dog you’d like to help
- Comment the amount you’d like to pledge on that dog’s post
- Check Facebook Messenger for info on how to donate your pledge amount
When you pledge, you will receive updates and pictures of the dog that you helped via Facebook Messenger. Your pledge could help save a dog’s life!
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Barriers to Fostering Dogs and Solutions to Overcome Them
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What is a Shelter Dog? They’re Not Owner Rejects.
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How to Prepare for a Foster Dog
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Common Dog Behavior Problems and Solutions
Dog behavior problems can be frustrating for new dog foster parents. Even minor concerns can be annoying to deal with if you can’t find a good solution. So, to help…
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Dog Body Language: Knowing When Foster Dogs are Stressed
Understanding dog body language is a great way for new foster parents to set their foster dogs up for success. Dogs display lots of behaviors that could indicate stress or…
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Fosters Needed for Memphis Shelter
Memphis Animal Services
2350 Appling City Cove
Memphis, TN 38133
(901) 636-1416
MAS@memphistn.gov
HOURS
Monday-Friday 1-6pm
Saturday & Sunday 12-4pm