Temp 2-week Fosters needed!!

Long Beach CA

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We're looking for some awesome dog and cat lovers to help us showcase the sweet furry family members at the Long Beach shelter!! We're so excited to bring our DiscoverMe Project™ to Long Beach Animal Care Services in an effort to help get some of their harder to place pets into homes! https://waggingdog.org/discover-me-project/ The DiscoverMe Project™ is a program that allows dogs and cats from the shelter to go into temporary 2-week foster care with an approved Wagging Dog Rescue foster home. The temporary reprieve gives the animals a break from the stresses of being kenneled; provides mental, emotional, and physical relief; and also gives the dogs and cats a bit of a ‘reboot’ and enables them to better handle the stressful environment upon return. It’s like our weekend to our work week! Our ideal DiscoverMe Dog or Cat™ is one who: - is being passed up, sitting unnoticed at the shelter for weeks or even months - may not show well in his/her kennel (withdrawn, timid, barking/hissing, jumping, etc.) due to fear, personality, stress, etc. but who behaves differently when outside of the kennel and shelter environment - is beginning to show signs of kennel stress/deterioration - may have been adopted and returned, possibly more than once - is not in immediate risk of humane euthanasia While in foster care, we’re able to learn more about the dog or cat when in a normal home environment, which doesn’t always align with behavior seen in a stressful kennel environment. We’re able to share that valuable information – as well as foster provided photos and videos – with shelter staff and potential adopters in order to aid shelter marketing and adopter selection. As a secondary goal to the DiscoverMe Project™, through rigorous marketing and promotion we ultimately hope not to return the DiscoverMe Dog or Cat™ to the shelter but instead to see that animal safely in the care of a forever family or reputable rescue with a foster care provider. If you’re an experienced dog and/or cat person and are interested in temporarily fostering a DiscoverMe Dog or Cat™, contact us today!