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Fostering ophs animals

Fostering is an important step on a pet's journey to their forever home.

A home environment is best for their health and well-being and allows them to thrive in a home environment while forming bonds with their caregivers.

For pets who have been waiting longer for adoption, fosters can help reassure adopters that these pets are a good fit for their home with firsthand experience with that animal.

OPHS staff work with volunteer caregivers so that in foster care, cats and kittens, dogs and puppies get love, care and the comforts of home so their future life can start on the right paw.

Experienced OPHS foster caregivers provide temporary care to animals who are recovering from illness or injury, or who need socialization support. Caregivers may also provide care for stray or surrendered senior cats and dogs, many who have lost owners that can no longer care for them. OPHS also seeks caregivers that have a heart for hospice pets at the time when they most need a quiet and loving home.

With the help of our amazing volunteer families, OPHS' foster program cares for hundreds of homeless animals each year. If you've got a love of animals, a willingness to learn, and a little extra room in your heart and home, we can help with the rest!

Becoming a foster

Watch our Foster orientation video

How to Become a Foster:

1. Make sure you meet all of the guidelines:

  If you have companion animals of your own at home, all must be and have proof of:

  Their Spay/Neuter

  Up to date Vaccinations

  Animals must be able to be physically seperated in your home from other foster animals. (The length of isolation period depends on the needs of individual foster animals)

 

2. Watch the Foster Orientation video to the left

3. Complete a Foster Application

4. Foster!

We cant thank you enough for your interest in fostering! The time you'll spend caring for animals in need is truely invaluable and expands our capacity to save other animals as well!
Though you'll be volunteering(Fostering) independently at home, we hope you realize you're part of a tight knit and wise community of volunteers(& Fosters) close to home!
  -Questions can be emailed to:  info@op-hs.org
 

Please note that animals which are Fostered are still OPHS's animals and upon request/demand these animals must be returned/brought to the organization for important Medical Vaccinations or Procedures. Thanks for your support!

Maddie's Pet Assistant (MPA) Smartphone App

A free new tool provided to OPHS for our Foster Program is Maddie's Pet Assistant or MPA, provided to OPHS from national non-profit Maddie's Fund Foundation.

MPA is a smartphone and tablet app that provides support to caregivers from the moment they bring pet(s) into their temporary home.

Through the MPA, caregivers can:

  • Get quick answers to questions and concerns from OPHS staff

  • Share valuable updates on pet's health and behavior

  • Helps OPHS gather information on how pets are adjusting in a home environment

  • Submit quick and easy pet biographies, photos or videos to OPHS to help with adoptions

Watch the video to see how MPA gives OPHS foster volunteers superpowers!

Join us and help make a difference in these animals lives!

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