Foster Program

Looking for one of the most rewarding experiences of your life? 

We are in URGENT need of LOVING foster homes!! 

Imagine bringing back from emotional turmoil a dog that was living in fear and now giving her first kiss... 
Imagine feeding back to health a skinny and unsocialized older dog that does not know if it can trust... 
Imagine adding to your own dog family a dog that was once fearful and turning him into a happy-go-lucky fellow ... 
Imagine watching a dog who spent hours, days, trapped in a cage looking at the faces that pass him by, run happy while playing ball with you... 
Imagine the unconditional love you will receive from opening your home to foster a shelter dog... 
And finally, imagine after that, the joy you will experience when you handover your foster dog to its new loving family, knowing how you changed that dog's life. 
You can have that AMAZING experience of saving a life and falling in love, if you FOSTER with us! 

SO ARE YOU READY TO FOSTER? 

WHY SHOULD YOU FOSTER THROUGH SHELTER LINK? 

We are volunteers at the town shelter. We are there with the dogs everyday and know their temperaments. All rescues will be evaluated before entering into the foster care program. 

We believe most shelter dogs just need to learn how to live in a home and how to trust people once again. They may need medical care, grooming, socializing and training but most of all they need to be loved before moving on to their forever families. 

Shelter Link stands behind all of our adopted/foster dogs and their families
and will assist any family that may need a bit of help in getting a dog
acclimated to its new environment.  If necessary, however, we will remove
the dog from that home and relocate him with another family in our volunteer
network. The larger our network of foster families, the more dogs we will
eventually be able to get adopted into loving homes!!!
We will support our families in finding permanent homes for our foster dogs
by holding and attending adoption events, placing notices on Petfinders,
AdoptAPet, and Facebook sites, as well as using any and all other venues at
our disposal, including the invaluable word-of-mouth marketing by our
wonderful network of families.

We are at www.shelterlink.com and on facebook. Call for a foster application at 516-458-3103 or contact us via our website.