Fostering saves lives: Be a hero to a homeless pet
When you provide a foster home to an animal from Best Friends or a local shelter, you become part of a lifesaving team working to create a bright, healthy, and safe future for homeless dogs and cats around the country.
A shelter can be a noisy and stressful place, especially for shy and frightened animals. By providing a loving, quiet place for pets to learn and grow, you’re helping to alleviate the burden for a local shelter.
When you foster a pet, you’re helping to save even more lives by freeing up space in shelters for additional animals. So what are you waiting for? Snuggles, silliness, fun, and friendship await!
Foster with Best Friends
Best Friends is partnering with these communities throughout the country to help save their homeless pets, and you can be a part of that lifesaving when you raise your hand to foster:
No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) • No-Kill Utah (NKUT) • Navajo Nation
Help your local animal shelter or rescue group
At Best Friends, our goal is to get more dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes and make every shelter in America no-kill. Each and every one of these shelters needs caring people like you to adopt, foster, donate, volunteer, and advocate to help save the lives of pets in your community.
Find an animal shelter or rescue group near you today:
Still have questions? More about fostering »
What to expect when you foster a pet
Fostering a pet is an easy, direct, and short-term way to make a lifetime of difference. It simply means temporarily opening your home to pets in need and giving them love and care while they wait to be adopted.
Foster Volunteer Tasks
Time Commitment
Volunteer Requirements
Lifesaving tales of love and resilience
Meet a few of the amazing animals who've found healing and happiness because of caring foster volunteers.
More ways you can help the animals
As thousands of animals looking for families of their very own remain in shelters around the country, one of the most valuable gifts you can give them is your time.
