Fosters of the Week
Please help us. Foster volunteers help save more lives!
By fostering a homeless pet, you enable PAWS Chicago to have greater space at our Rescue & Recovery Center to save more animals. You also enable long-term pets or those who have trouble adjusting to shelter life, to enjoy life in a home environment until they are ready for adoption. Many puppies, kittens, dogs and cats are sitting at the city pound, uncertain of their fates. The more animals we can take in, the more lives we can save.
Puppies and Kittens
All puppies and kittens who arrive at PAWS Chicago have under-developed immune systems. Fosters provide puppies and kittens with a safe haven for two weeks, giving them time to grow and develop. Once they are healthy enough to receive vaccinations and their spay/neuter surgery, they make their way to the Adoption Shelter.
Zippy, Waxelman, Brushie & Brooke
These beautiful kittens are ready for foster! Playful and happy, these guys need 2 weeks to scamper across your...
Hero
Hero is looking for a foster home where he can receive lots of attention and companionship. ...
Moe, Malinda, Clair & Christine
Holy Moly! With summer fast approaching, these four pups are ready to tumble right into your foster home! ...
Daisy, Marigold & Sunflower
Daisy and here kittens are looking for a wonderful foster home in which to rest their heads while they...
JD, Irvin, Jean & Wyoming
These siblings are in need of a lovely foster parent to care for and spoil them for the next...
Nimoy, Natter & Norman
These siblings love to play and can often be found napping in a big kitten pile! ...
Costa & Capra
Costa and Capra are in need of a lovely foster parent to care for and spoil them for the...
Kitty, May, Fauna, Fidel & Froggy
Kitty and her four kittens arrived at PAWS a couple weeks from Animal Care and Control and are very...
Sick and Injured
Pets who are sick and injured often require additional time in foster to recuperate from an illness or injury suffered before they arrived at PAWS Chicago. Sick and Injured fosters provide a loving home, medications, exercise or food for special diets to expedite their recover before animals move to the Adoption Center. They also enable PAWS Chicago to free up space in our isolation room so that we can transfer in more animals from the city pound who need our help.
Crisis Care Fosters
These pets, whose families have experienced a crisis, are looking for a wonderful temporary home while their families focus on rebuilding their lives. Crisis Care Fosters keep these pets safe and cared for until the families are able to stabilize their living situation.
Tabitha & Philly
Tabitha & Philly are part of our Crisis Care Program, which means that their owner has recently fallen on hard times...
Holiday Fosters
Adult pets who are not adjusting well to shelter life or have spent more than several weeks at PAWS Chicago’s Adoption Center often need a break or holiday in a home setting. PAWS Chicago Holiday Fosters provide a temporary loving home (and training as appropriate for dogs, requiring experienced handlers) to pets who need additional time to build confidence before they return to the Adoption Center in search for their new forever home.
Julia
Hello! My name is Julia, and I am a fluffy 3-year-old orange beauty who can’t wait to meet you!...
Sick Animals at Animal Care & Control Need Your Help!
Each week, PAWS Chicago’s Intake team sees many dogs who are suffering from upper respiratory infections(aka kennel cough) at the city pound. In order to rescue them, PAWS Chicago needs foster families who can provide temporary housing for these sweet pups as they recover. Because there are a limited number of isolation rooms at PAWS Chicago’s Rescue & Recovery Center which are regularly at capacity, the number of dogs with upper respiratory that we can take in is also limited. With support from foster families, PAWS Chicago can save more lives from the city pound. An ideal foster home will have no other canines in the household to prevent transmission of this infection to other dogs.
Sick Animals at Animal Care & Control Need Your Help!
Every week, there are many dogs that have a cold or what we call, an upper respiratory infection(aka kennel...
