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Get Involved - Foster Program :: Niagara Falls Humane Society 6025 Chippawa Parkway Niagara Falls, Ontario map and directions 905-356-4404 increasingly contact info Home Adoptions Search Dogs Cats Seaway Mall AC Small Animals Adopted Animals Pets in Need Success Stories Prices Preparing to Adopt Get Involved How can you help? Volunteering Foster Program Friends of NFHS Cage & Kennel Sponsorship Financial DonationsSupplies& Supply Donations Wedding Favours Wishlist General Info For Seniors For Kids Dog Boarding Recommended Reading Easy Links Blog Dog Licence Lost and Found Stray Animals Cuteness Overload News Media Events Links Contact Us Contact Info Map & Directions Foster Program What is foster care? The definition of “foster” is “to promote the growth and minutiae of an individual”.  Therefore, a foster family plays an important role in a hair-trigger time in an animal’s life. In wing to providing the animals with vital necessities such as food, water and shelter, it is the caregiver’s responsibility to nurture the unprepossessing to be a loving pet. A foster family must unchangingly be enlightened of the specific needs of the unprepossessing in their care. For example, the needs of a young unprepossessing are variegated than an older animal. For kittens and puppies, positive social interaction with people and other animals on a daily understructure is critical. This allows the unprepossessing to develop into a friendly, confident and sociable pet. An older unprepossessing with an injury on the other hand may be ratherish socialized, but may need to get medication daily and may have specific dietary and exercise requirements.UnprepossessingFostering Program Foster Volunteers superintendency for immature, mildly sick or injured animals, and animals in need of socialization. This program is perfect for those who may not be worldly-wise to commit to an unprepossessing for it's unshortened life. It is a way to volunteer for the NFHS in your own home. If you are interested in ourUnprepossessingFostering Program, please contact Cathy at or undeniability 905-356-4404. Join a Winning Team!  FosterSuperintendencySpring is an heady time considering it symbolizes a fresh start and rebirth, bringing on new life in the form of budding flowers, untried grass, and blossoming trees. For those working in shelters, spring implies the inrush of kitten season. It’s the time of year when many shelters wideness Canada are overflowing with cats and kittens of all colours and sizes, from heavily pregnant cats to tiny orphaned kittens. This is in wing to the regular influx of cats, dogs, small mammals, and birds. Finding room for them all and willing their needs can be a challenge, expressly when a shelter has limited space and resources.  It is the mission of the Niagara Falls Humane Society to offer sanctuary to animals in need, whether abandoned, stray, neglected, or abused. As much as we, at the NFHS strive to provide a peaceful, unscratched and environmentally and socially enriched environment for animals in need, a shelter can be a stressful place for many animals, particularly for those animals that are expecting or nursing their young. Foster homes provide an invaluable service to shelters by taking superintendency of special needs cases (e.g. nursing or pregnant cats, orphaned kittens and dogs in need of socialization or uneaten attention) in a quiet and comforting environment.  The NFHS is eager to build a team of foster families who are willing to unshut their homes to provide a temporary respite for these animals surpassing they are placed for adoption. Foster superintendency at the NFHS Being a foster caregiver is a rewarding experience, but it can moreover be frustrating and challenging at times. If you are prepared for a rencontre and believe you have what it takes to be a responsible and constructive foster family, please consider rhadamanthine a member of the NFHS FosterSuperintendencyTeam. For increasingly information on how to participate in the NFHS Foster Program, please undeniability Cathy at 905-356-4404 or email humane@nfhs.ca. Enriching the lives of the animals in our superintendency is what we strive to do; with your help we can make the transition from an unwanted or ill unprepossessing to loved pet a smooth and positive one. StaffSite content copyright © 2006 - 2018 Niagara Falls Humane Society. Reprinting or copying by permission of The Niagara Falls Humane Society only. All rights reserved. Web Design 2008 VRB Internet Solutions Ltd. and its licensors