Foster a Cat and Save a Life!
ORGANIZATION: Project Purr Baton Rouge
Please visit the new page to apply.
A foster home is a temporary living situation for cats while they are awaiting placement in a permanent home. Foster families provide shelter, food, care and love. The number of animals we can save depends entirely on the number of people who open their homes and hearts to foster them.
What Does the Foster Do?
- Provide a safe, clean, caring, indoor-only environment.
- Provide food, water, shelter, and litter.
- Provide playtime and socialization as appropriate.
- Monitor any medical and/or behavioral problems.
- Transport to/from any necessary vet appointments (Veterinary care is paid for by Project Purr BR, provided you take your foster animal to one of our provider veterinarians.)
- Transport to/from at least one adoption event per week.
More opportunities with Project Purr Baton Rouge
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Project Purr Baton Rouge
Location:
P.O. Box 82733, Baton Rouge, LA 70884, US
Mission Statement
Project Purr BR exists to save as many of the cats and kittens at our city's pound (Companion Animal Alliance shelter; formerly EBR Animal Control) as possible. Prior to our existence, 90 percent of felines who entered the shelter died there. Project Purr BR is changing that and is leading Baton Rouge into a time when no kitten or cat is killed needlessly at our community's shelter.
Description
Project Purr BR and other nonprofits are engaged the Baton Rouge No Kill Initiative, in which adopting, fostering, and spaying/neutering become the priority at the Companion Animal Alliance (CAA) shelter, formerly East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control Center. A No Kill Community is one in which no healthy, treatable, or rehabilitatible dog or cat is put down. Achieving No Kill is a process which is dependent on multiple programs, including rescue organizations such as Project Purr BR. Success is achieved through strong community involvement.
We in Project Purr BR rescue cats and kittens who are at imminent risk of being put down at the CAA shelter, place in foster homes, provide comprehensive veterinary care including spay/neuter, and then adopt into loving homes. Given that each year, 25,000 Baton Rougeans will adopt a new pet, we reject the theory that there are too many pets, not enough adopters. We believe that with hard work and strong community support, no impounded cat or kitten should have to die because of lack of space. In the first two years of our existence we have rescued over 2,000 felines from being killed at the shelter, and they are being adopted into homes all over Louisiana and even other states throughout the USA.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
From Your Home in the Baton Rouge AreaBaton Rouge, LA 70816
DATE POSTED
March 27, 2015
SKILLS
- Animal Care / Handling
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- We require a completed foster care application and an interview with you in your home.