Open Your Home. Fill Your Heart. Save a Life.
Open Your Home.
Fill Your Heart.
Save a Life.
Foster homes are the bridge between survival and a second chance. Every time you foster, you’re giving a homeless animal a safe place to rest, recover, and be seen for who they truly are.
We urgently need short-term foster homes, even just for a day, a weekend, or a few weeks. When an animal leaves the stress of a crowded shelter and enters a loving home, everything changes. We learn their personality, quirks, and training needs — information that helps match them with the perfect family and keeps them out of the shelter for good. Some pets are too young, ill, or scared to be adopted right away. In a foster home, they heal faster, learn to trust, and get the love they need to thrive.
All medical care is covered by Lincoln County Animal Services or the rescue group that’s pulled the animal. HATS can often help with food, crates, and supplies — you just provide the love.
Foster homes are the bridge between survival and a second chance. Every time you foster, you’re giving a homeless animal a safe place to rest, recover, and be seen for who they truly are.
We urgently need short-term foster homes, even just for a day, a weekend, or a few weeks. When an animal leaves the stress of a crowded shelter and enters a loving home, everything changes. We learn their personality, quirks, and training needs — information that helps match them with the perfect family and keeps them out of the shelter for good. Some pets are too young, ill, or scared to be adopted right away. In a foster home, they heal faster, learn to trust, and get the love they need to thrive.
All medical care is covered by Lincoln County Animal Services or the rescue group that’s pulled the animal. HATS can often help with food, crates, and supplies — you just provide the love.
*HATS is not a rescue. We support the shelter through volunteer services, which includes foster support. Fosters must apply to Lincoln County Animals Services for approval, or to individual rescues that pull animals from the shelter.
5 Barks Stay! Program
If you are interested in giving a LCAS dog a break from the shelter environment, but aren’t quite ready for the commitment of being a foster, please consider the 5 Barks Stay! Program. Eligible dogs can be taken out of the shelter on a Doggy Day Out or a Staycation for up to 5 days. This helps the dog by reducing the stress of being in the shelter, and it helps shelter staff learn more about the dog’s personality in a home setting.