Ready to bring home a new friend? Here's what to expect when you adopt from Humane Colorado.
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The goal of our Homes with Hearts foster care program is to rehabilitate as many animals as possible in order to make them available for adoption. With the help of our dedicated foster volunteers, thousands of cats, kittens, dogs, puppies, and a variety of small mammals enter the program each year.
If you have a place in your heart and home for animals—but you’re not able to adopt—consider fostering. Our Homes with Hearts foster care program lets animal lovers bring pets from our shelters into their homes on a temporary basis to prepare them for adoption.
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Our Junior Foster Parent program provides an opportunity for people ages 12 to 15 to gain hands-on experience with the responsibilities involved in caring for animals. Prospective junior foster parents follow the same process as our adult foster parents to learn how to properly care for an animal in their home. (Please note: We are unable to sign off on school required or community service hours for being a part of our foster program.)
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Are you able to separate the foster animals from your own animals? Because most foster animals have limited immunity, it is best to keep them in a separate room for the duration of their time in your home. When outside, puppies and dogs must be supervised in an enclosed yard or on leash. Kittens and cats must be kept indoors at all times.
To support our foster volunteers, we provide classes on caring for kittens, cats, puppies and dogs. Mentors are provided for interested foster volunteers.
In addition to in-home foster parents, we need help at the shelters with medicating, cleaning and feeding the foster animals in our care. If you are interested in our Homes with Hearts foster program, please fill out our application.
Fostering is one of the most rewarding experiences you will ever have. With your help, we are able to save thousands of lives.
A volunteer foster parent assists in the rehabilitation of an animal by providing in-home care.
Foster parents are either
An animal may need a foster home for a variety of reasons including age, illness, injuries, and socialization, or to help provide needed space at the shelters for incoming animals. Foster parents provide a clean, safe, loving environment for the animals in their homes.
We furnish all of the supplies needed. This includes food, litter, bedding, toys and enrichment items, and medical care. Foster parents incur their own expenses traveling to the shelters for medical care and foster care appointments. Appointments vary depending on the reason an animal is being fostered.
What are the requirements for foster parents?