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Fostering animals is fun and rewarding. By temporarily taking a homeless animal into your home, you can make a huge difference in their life and ultimately help them to find their forever home.

Benefits for the animal

Many animals do not adjust well to shelter life and remain stressed in the environment of the shelter. By allowing animals to relax, train, or recover, a foster home ultimately makes an animal more adoptable. Fostering provides staff with information on how an animal behaves in a real home setting. We can pass this information along to potential adopters to assist them in selecting an animal that is right for them.

Foster homes can be ideal places for young animals that are not ready for adoption, such as young puppies and kittens, or animals with temporary health problems. A foster home can provide a quiet place for an animal to recover from surgery, or wounds. A foster home may also be ideal for an animal with a treatable behavioral problem, such as a young dog without manners.

Foster homes also allows WAG to accept more animals, particularly in situations where the shelter has reached its maximum capacity.

Benefits for you

Fostering is an excellent way for a person or family to decide if they are ready to accept the responsibilities of pet ownership. You receive love, companionship and the great feeling that comes from knowing you have helped a friend in need.

If you are ready to foster an animal in need, complete an application.

Submit your completed application in either of these ways:

• 1. Mail to P.O. Box 274, Whistler, BC, V0N 1B0
• 2. Fax it to 604-935-8328
• 3. Email it to us (mail to: wag@thewagway.com)
• 4. Drop if off in person at the WAG shelter at 8000 Nesters Road

This will help us ensure that we match you with an appropriate animal and it is a mutually beneficial experience for you and the animal. If you do not own your home you must have the permission of your landlord to have an animal. Please keep in mind that not every animal is a candidate for a foster home. If we do not have a suitable animal in need, we will keep your application on file and will contact you when one becomes available.

When you foster an animal you are asked to sign an agreement. While fostered, the animal remains under the guardianship of WAG. As such, we will provide food, dishes, litter, toys, other supplies and veterinary care. We will also provide necessary advice and guidance. You provide the love and friendship. There is no time limit on foster care. We prefer to assess the progress of each animal individually and make decisions according to your schedule and the well being of the animal.