Foster

What is a Foster Home?

A foster home is a temporary living situation for our shelter pets. Foster families provide shelter, care, and love while our pets await placement in a forever home or travel on a transport to an out-of-state shelter partner. The number of animals we can save depends entirely on the number of people who open their hearts and homes to foster pets. Foster homes allow us to create space in the shelter so we can rescue more pets in need.

Why Foster?

Louisiana has a serious pet over population problem. Every day puppies and kittens enter municipal shelters and may not make it out alive. Fostering provides a life-saving outcome for these pets. Foster homes offer an alternative to the shelter environment and provide the attention and comfort that only a home setting can provide — especially for young kittens and puppies, older animals, and frightened pets who are having a hard time in the shelter. Foster pets usually stay in their temporary home anywhere from a few days to two weeks.

Fostering has so many rewards: you are able to help a pet in need, enjoy the companionship of a pet without a lifetime commitment, try new companions for the resident pets in your home, and provide some extra TLC to kittens and puppies too young to be adopted.

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Fostering Snapshots:

How It Works:

You Provide

• A healthy and safe environment

• Transportation to and from AAA or adoption events and vet appointments as needed

• Socialization to help develop positive family and pet relationships

• Exercise and mental stimulation

AAA Provides

• All basic care supplies (food, leash/collar, ID tag and crate)

• All veterinary care needed

• Support, advice and training resources

Our Foster Programs!

Weekend Sleepovers

Our sleepover program allows you to take a dog home for 2-3 nights between Friday-Monday for a fun weekend getaway! This program is geared towards specific dogs who aren’t getting adoption interest or are stressed/not performing well at the shelter. The goal of a sleepover is to give a dog a much needed break from the shelter. Studies have shown that even a night or two in a foster home can help reduce stress levels, helping the dog relax and get adopted faster. Your observations and experiences with a shelter dog in a home provides valuable information for adopters and helps staff make better adoption matches!

Short Term Foster

Our short term foster program is flexible and easy, allowing you the opportunity to foster for any length of time you’re available. This program is open to both cats and dogs. You choose your commitment and work together with our staff to find the fastest route home for the pets in our care. Our average foster period is 2-3 weeks, with most cats and dogs getting adopted or transported within that time frame.

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Family Foster

Our family foster program is for dogs and cats who’s length of stay we anticipate to be longer than our average 2-3 weeks. This includes animals who are going through a medical treatment or pets who just need a bit more tlc, whether they are shy or just need some work in the good manners department. We’ll assign you to a dog or cat who truly needs a temporary family to lift them up and prepare them for the life they were always meant to have.

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What Our Fosters Have To Say!

“In February 2022 we adopted our beautiful puppy, Callie, from Acadiana Animal Aid. We loved her dearly. Unfortunately, she had a mysterious neurological disorder that was progressing despite all treatment attempts. After loving her for 6 months, things became too unsafe and we had to make the gut-wrenching decision to lay her to rest. Our hearts were broken. Our hearts were not ready to jump into the commitment of adopting again—losing Callie left a huge void in our hearts and lives. I brought up the idea of fostering, that way we could have paws in our home again. My girls wanted to do it right away to help them heal. We started fostering at the end of August 2022. It has been the most wonderful experience. We get these sweet pups who are super scared and with a little bit of patience and love the transformation is amazing. It has been so rewarding for all involved. People say all the time “I couldn’t do it I would get to attached.” Well, you do get attached and show them unconditional love because it is what they deserve. Going into it knowing you are a safe place for them to stay while they get ready for their forever home makes it so worth it. Even my girls will get so excited when they get adopted, then are asking when are we getting the next one? We “failed” with our #7 foster but have continued to foster and hope to do so for a long time.”

Lauren F.

“It is a joy to be a foster family to these precious souls, and so gratifying to see them in the arms of their furever family. I would suggest fostering to anyone that can devote the time and energy that any animal requires, but most of all to those who feel like something might be missing from their life. To save a life is a powerful thing, and that is JUST what fostering does. In fact, two lives. The one in your home and the one that now has a spot open at the shelter. Fostering Saves Lives and I am proud to say that I am a foster parent!”

Shannon H.

“I never thought I could foster because I didn’t think I could ever let them go – my first fosters were Gongo and Garrett (basset/dachshund mixes) and we fell in love. I cried when they left but then realized they were going to their furever homes and I could continue fostering. One of them has his own Instagram page that I still follow. For the last two years, I have fostered over 60 puppies and it is the most rewarding experience to show these precious animals what their lives should really be like. I have fosters for 2 days to 3 months – I open up my home to these precious animals who just want to be loved and provide a safe space for them until that perfect family comes along to give them a home. Please consider fostering.”

Foster

What is a Foster Home?

Why Foster?

Fostering Snapshots:

How It Works:

You Provide

• A healthy and safe environment

• Transportation to and from AAA or adoption events and vet appointments as needed

• Socialization to help develop positive family and pet relationships

• Exercise and mental stimulation

AAA Provides

• All basic care supplies (food, leash/collar, ID tag and crate)

• All veterinary care needed

• Support, advice and training resources

Our Foster Programs!

Weekend Sleepovers

Short Term Foster

Family Foster

What Our Fosters Have To Say!

Lauren F.

Shannon H.

Christie D.