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Foster Care

Save more lives with our foster care resources, including customizable dog and cat foster care guides, sanitation tips for foster homes, and more.

Intake Pathways for Open-Admission Horse Adoption Agencies

Equine open admission programs are a great way to serve your community and prevent horses from going to low-end auctions.

Adoption & Placement

From fostering to fee-waived to open adoptions, this section is teaming with tips, how-tos and tools to help you–and your fosters—find homes for more animals.

Emergency Foster Resources

Use these fostering resources to help you recruit and manage fosters during an emergency.

Disaster Preparedness & Response

Learn how animal welfare organizations and individuals can prepare and respond to natural and manmade disasters in their communities.

Online Resource Launches for Owner-to-Owner Adoptions

An online community, getyourpet.com, has launched to connect people who want to adopt pets with people who need to rehome their pets.

Programs & Operations

We’ve provided information to help you fill your many roles as well as forms and samples useful for hiring & firing, volunteer management, and fundraising.

Participate in Adopt a Horse Month

Have horses in need of homes? Join the ASPCA®'s Right Horse Adopt a Horse Month!

The Rescue Effect: Tools & Resources for Animal Shelters

Join The Rescue Effect campaign in 2025. We're providing shelters and rescues the tools and resources they need to increase critical adoption, foster and community engagement without having to change any processes or policies.

Adoption Ambassadors Foster Program

Adoption Ambassadors is foster care taken to the next level: You supply simple training and a few tools, and foster parents take it from there.