These links relate to fostering, or to finding ways to keep dogs in their current homes, thus avoiding the need for a foster home or shelter. Local, national, and international resources are welcome. To add a link, please contact me.

Behavior Problems and Owner Education | Contracts | Domestic Abuse | Elderly, Disabled, or Ill Pet Owners | Housing Issues | Long Term Boarding | Military Pets | Natural Disasters

Behavior Problems and Owner Education

• Can We Help You Keep Your Pet?
  Often people feel they must give up their pets for various reasons. On these pages, you'll hopefully find some alternatives and be able to keep your animal. Includes sections on moving, housetraining, barking, various behavior problems, medical problems, allergies, not enough time for the dog, and more. Also includes info on finding an appropriate new home for your pet if you must.
• Dogs Deserve Better
  National nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing the chained dog, and bringing our 'best friend' into the home and family. Volunteers may foster a formerly chained dog to housetrain him and correct other behavior problems before returning him to live indoors with his former family, or placing him elsewhere as an indoor pet.

Contracts

• Foster Care Agreement Between Pet Owner and Friend
  Sample contract between owner and foster caregiver. Created by HSUS for military fosters, but could be modified for other situations.

Domestic Abuse

• Safe Havens for Animals (Humane Society of the United States)
  Nationwide directory of programs that offer a life-saving alternative for family violence victims and their companion animals.
• Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence Resources
  Resources for Carlisle, IA; Austin, TX; Washington, DC; Eugene, OR; Alameda, CA; Englewood, CO; Dallas, TX; W. Lafayette, IN; San Francisco, CA
• Pet Haven (SPCA of Texas)
  Providing short-term foster care for pets of families living in domestic violence shelters.
• PetSafe - Lafayette, IN
  A student run program that provides veterinary care and housing for animals owned by families in crisis.

Elderly, Disabled, or Ill Pet Owners

• Humane Society at Lollypop Farm - Senior Citizen Pet Assistance Program (Fairport, NY)
  Provides financial assistance to seniors on fixed incomes who wish to continue living at home with a pet who is often their sole companion. A Pet Food Bank is maintained and can provide food on an emergency basis. For more information about this program, contact Craig Walker at 223-1330 x251.
• Pet Guardians (Lancaster County, PA)
  A small group of volunteers devoted to assisting older adults who can no longer care for their pets due to illness or decline in physical health. In some cases, volunteers may take the pets to visit with their owners while they are in the hospital. Foster families provide temporary shelter until permanent placement.
• Pet Support Services (Lansing, MI)
  Helps senior citizens and people with special needs to keep and care for their companion and service animals.
• Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
  Provides invaluable services and peace of mind to ailing pet owners by caring for their pets. Helpful for elderly, disabled, or ill pet owners.

Housing Issues

• Companion Animals in Rental Housing - Federal Law
  This guide explains four key federal laws that govern the rights of tenants, and that may determine whether you have a right as a tenant to live with a companion animal, whether you rent a home, own a home that is governed by a homeowners' association, live in federally-assisted public housing for the elderly or disabled, or in federally assisted public housing that does not give such a preference to the elderly or disabled, or whether your housing is subsidized by a state or local government.
• FosterCat Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Click "Pet friendly landlords" for an extensive listing by location, including what types of pets are allowed, amount of deposit required, and monthly pet rent.
• Humane Society of Lollypop Farm - Pets Are Welcome Program (Rochester, NY)
  The Pets Are Welcome program is another step toward our goal of becoming a Shelter of Hope for unwanted animals. The goal of the program is to find more homes for adoptable animals by encouraging pet owners and landlords to work together to find solutions for pet housing problems. The P.A.W. program publishes The Rochester Pet Friendly Apartment List. This list identifies nearly 150 apartment complexes throughout the county that currently allow pets.
• PetRent.Net
  We are a real estate rental listing company that deals ONLY in Pet-Friendly properties, specifically privately owned houses, town houses, condos, and duplexes.

Long Term Boarding
To be included on our list, boarding facilities must offer at least one of the following: 1) reduced rates for long-term boarding; 2) a home setting or home-like environment; 3) walks, playtime, attention, exercise, or enrichment activities at no additional cost. Please note that inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement.

Military Pets

• Canine Corps (Shermans Dale, PA)
  Homing dogs of deployed military in Central Pennsylvania. Your buddy will be well cared for while awaiting your return, at no cost to you other than normal medical expenses. Your buddy will have plenty of affection, exercise and companionship. The facility is staffed 24x7x365 with medically knowledgeable caregivers. Volunteers provide daily walks and your buddy will play daily with others within the four hundred lineal feet of fenced in play area. This service is offered to central Pennsylvania military personnel who are deployed overseas on active duty and who have dogs needing a place to stay during this time.
• Military Mascots
  Site is primarily a resource for helping soldiers who have found animals while deployed. Also lists military pets needing foster homes. Scroll down to see a list of organizations that offer foster homes for military pets.
• MilitaryPetsFOSTER Project
  A nationwide network of individual foster homes that will house, nurture and care for the dogs, cats, birds and other pets for all the Military and other personnel only. Recognized, recommended and endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Operation Noble Foster
  Helping our military have their cat to come home to! Coordinating the cat foster for military pets using a private interactive, searchable database listing homes volunteering to foster and rescues with such foster homes available. If a military person has the need for a long term foster for their pet, please contact us.

Natural Disasters

• HSUS Disaster Services
  When a disaster strikes, the HSUS Disaster Animal Response Teams (DART) move quickly to assess the damage and evaluate the impact on animals, and then to provide the most appropriate support to the local community. We work with local emergency responders, local humane associations and shelters, and local disaster volunteers. The disaster response program is supported by a network of trained and equipped staff volunteers available for nationwide response.
• International Fund for Animal Welfare - Disaster Relief
  When disaster strikes, animals are often the forgotten victims, caught in the path of a bushfire or a snowstorm, a flood or a fire. Working with local communities, IFAW steps in to alleviate suffering, save lives and educate for the future.
• Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team
  Animal emergencies create danger for animals and their owners. Lack of preparation leads to unnecessary tragedy, human injury, and economic loss. Pets are the Number One reason people return to their homes before local authorities have declared it safe to do so, risking lives in the effort to save beloved pets. Pennsylvania is home to millions of agricultural and domestic animals. SART encourages all pet owners to evacuate with their animals to prevent endangering human and animal lives. By remembering to include your pets as part of your family's emergency evacuation plan, you can avoid those last minute decisions that could endanger the safety of your family and pets.