VINELAND ? Some homeless animals need a little extra tender loving care before they?re perceived as perfect for adoption.
When animals that arrive at the local shelter are aging, hurt, sick or even pregnant, the Cumberland County SPCA lines up a foster home to take them in, care for them and sometimes nurse them back to good health, said Maria Stoerrle, the organization?s foster care coordinator.
Newborns and young animals are suited well for foster life, where they can learn to socialize with people and other animals while being trained. Senior pets aren?t adopted as quickly as younger animals, and the shelter staff doesn?t like seeing them sit in cages for long periods of time. And it?s a priority to get the injured or sick pets in a home to ensure a better recovery.
The nearly 100 families who open their homes to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? foster program help the North Delsea Drive shelter maximize the number of pets it can place in permanent settings.
?For many animals that go into foster care, the foster homes are literally saving their life,? Stoerrle said. ?There?s just a huge difference between a cage and a home for some of them. It does become kind of like a shelter outside a shelter.?
Sometimes animals move to a foster home due to emergency situations. A fire at the SPCA facility in December had shelter staff relying on a foster home to care for three birds they felt would be affected by fumes if moved back into the building too soon.
The shelter also made good use of its foster families when a puppy mill raid brought several new dogs to its doors.
Stoerrle said she?s amazed constantly with how much the foster families are willing to help.
?The animals sometimes are sick, they smell, they?re dirty and they take them,? she said. ?They just take them and keep saving them. It?s amazing.?
George Edgar Joyce III joined the foster care program two years ago, after a visit to the shelter showed him just how many animals need homes.
Source: http://www.madturks.net/2012/03/03/foster-homes-offer-pets-second-chances/
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