What is fostering and what is the time committment?

Fostering is giving a homeless animal a temporary safe place in your home. You provide care and love until we find an adopter.

Fosters are provided with support through mentors, coordinators and quarterly trainings.

Dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens need foster homes for varying time frames. The majority of our fosters usually go 4-6 weeks but longer if they need extensive medical care such as surgeries or heartworm treatment.

Questions to foster@threelittlepittiesrescue.org

Why fostering matters?

Fostering plays a vital role in animal rescue organizations like Three Little Pitties Rescue. Here's why fostering matters:

• Provides a Loving Environment: Fostering gives pets a chance to experience life in a home environment, providing them with love, attention, and socialization that they may not receive in a shelter setting.

• Saves Lives: By opening your home to a foster pet, you're freeing up space in shelters and rescues, allowing them to rescue more animals in need. Your act of fostering directly saves lives.

• Prepares Pets for Adoption: Fostering helps pets transition from shelter life to a forever home. It allows them to learn basic manners, adjust to living with humans and other animals, and overcome any behavioral challenges they may have.

• Provides Valuable Feedback: As a foster parent, you'll have the opportunity to provide valuable insights into the pet's personality, behavior, and needs, which can help match them with the perfect forever home.

How does it work financially?

Three Little Pitties Rescue takes care of the medical expenses for the foster animals at our veterinary partners or our Friendswood office. Additionally, we supply necessary items for our foster parents in Houston to ensure their success, such as kennels, food, collars, and more. This support is provided to dogs we intake who are placed with volunteer fosters.

If you need support in the PNW, medical expenses are covered there too! Simply reach out to our PNW foster team for any additional assistance, including food or other supplies, and we will do our best to get you what you need to get started.

How to get started?

Becoming a foster parent is easy and rewarding. Here's how you can get started:

• Complete the Application: Visit our website and fill out the foster application form. We'll ask about your experience with pets, your living situation, and your preferences for fostering.

• Attend an Orientation: Once your application is approved, you'll attend a foster orientation session where you'll learn more about our organization, fostering guidelines, and what to expect as a foster parent.

• Match with a Foster Pet: Based on your preferences and availability, we'll match you with a foster pet that fits your lifestyle and home environment. We'll provide all the necessary supplies and support to ensure a successful fostering experience.

• Provide Love and Care: As a foster parent, your role is to provide love, care, and basic training to your foster pet. You'll help them feel safe and loved while they wait for their forever home.

Ready to make a difference in the lives of animals? Sign up to become a foster parent today and join our lifesaving mission! Your decision to foster can directly save lives and make a lasting impact on the pets in our care. Together, we can provide love, care, and hope to animals in need. Join us in creating a brighter future for pets in our community.

Thank you for considering becoming a foster parent for Three Little Pitties Rescue. Your decision to foster can change the lives of pets in need and make a meaningful difference in our community. Sign up today and embark on a rewarding journey of love, compassion, and lifesaving.

Foster Testimonials

Brenda, Washington
“My little boy was nonverbal autistic and had significant issues relating with others and hated to be touched by anyone. When we started fostering for Three Little Pitties, my little man bloomed! The love and unconditional acceptance these dogs give has encouraged my son to start communicating and seeking affection from the people in his life. This is something I never thought would happen. He loves to snuggle the puppies and they get so much joy out of being loved on, it makes my heart ache. The progress in socializing that my son has made since we started fostering has startled his therapists and made me one happy parent! What could be better than unconditional love and puppy breath!?”

The Brock Family, Texas
“Fostering is a family affair for us. We foster in the hopes to place a small dent in the very high homeless dog population here in Houston. All of our children pitch in to help, feed, medicate, cuddle, play and clean up after our foster dogs. Fostering can be as large or small of a project as you want it to be. We have fostered one puppy and as many at 5 at a time while being a full time working family. People always wonder how we let them go to a new home. We let them go to a new home because we know there is always going to be another dog who needs our help. Fostering is rewarding and pays in snuggles and wet doggie kisses.”

Amanda and Family, Washington
“We have been fostering for about two years now and it’s a family affair. We foster because nothing grows our hearts like seeing a rescue dog find their furever homes. The pure joy of these pups for their humans is something special to witness. Not to mention the love that pours out of the humans who have that instant connection with their new fur baby. When we grow attached to one of our fosters, witnessing the connection with their furever family makes every emotion worth the ride!“

Brianna, Texas
“My husband and I knew we would start fostering as soon as we purchased a home. This gave us the opportunity to help dogs and adopters find the same love that we have for our rescues. We love our dogs so much and they truly make us better people. I know that if more people had that kind of bond with an animal, the world would be so much happier. We planned on fostering one dog at a time but that didn’t last long. Once we were involved we saw that so many needed our help. We have anywhere from 4-7 fosters at once. We love to take in heartworm positive pitties because they’re most likely to be left behind. Over the past year, we have fostered 50 dogs and 18 kittens and have fallen in love with them all. We enjoy seeing them go from the shelter/street to playing in the snow in the PNW.

There are so many ways to help rescue animals and we find this true the more we get involved. We have helped get so many dogs adopted just by great pictures and videos! I’ve helped local rescues save more dogs and I also am an adoption coordinator for Three Little Pitties now! We get to see our dogs all the way through their journey. We have had dogs from awful situations and now I get to see them enjoying the outdoor life! If you know me, you know our passion is for fostering. Fostering and rescue are the things I’m most proud of. Its not easy but it’s who we are.”

Beth, Washington
“I started fostering in March of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. I thought it would be fun and something the whole family could do together while we were stuck at home. I really had no idea how important the fosters and rescue volunteers are or how much these beautiful, amazingly resilient dogs and their stories would pull at my heartstrings! I will continue to do my part because there is no better feeling than saying good-bye knowing that you have helped them on their journey to their best life!

Yvonne, Texas
My main reason for fostering is to give these babies a chance but especially because I love animals. My husband, Mario, has joined me in my passion for fostering and is very supportive. I thought it would be so hard to let go when they finally get adopted but it has become easier with the extraordinary coordinators from Three Little Pitties who assure me and put me at ease in finding amazing adopters. We will continue to foster as long as our health allows us to. It brings us so much joy to see these little ones growing and thriving.

When people say, “I could never foster because it would be too hard to give them up….” We say, “I would rather cry watching them leave to a life of happiness and joy in a loving home, than cry because no one stepped up to help them.”

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