Whether you can take a dog home for a few nights or a longer stretch of time we can find you the perfect pet to foster.

Pets thrive away from the shelter, your fostering allows a pet to get away from the stress of a busy shelter and the bonus is we learn more details about the pet so we can match them more effectively with their forever home.

Dogs can be fostered as short as a single overnight – we call that a PawJama party, a weekend or string of days even better.  Cats aren’t as favorable to a change in their environment so we ask that you only apply to foster a cat if you can take the cat in longer – for week(s) minimum while we continue to market the pet for adoption.

Sometimes a spare room is the only thing standing between an animal and euthanasia in an animal control facility.  There’s nothing like the love and warmth of a family! Animals in foster care tend to be less stressed, better socialized, and have a lower chance of getting sick than animals in shelters.

When you make a donation to Wadena County Humane Society (WCHS) Animal Shelter’s Emergency Medical Fund you are helping WCHS care for dogs or cats with medical conditions that require a little extra time, attention, care, and finances. Each case that comes to us is unique – orthopedic issues such as broken bones or sprains, complicated and sometimes emergency surgeries, pets with heartworm disease, and much more.

We can only help these pets due to kindness and support from the community. We can’t thank you enough for your compassion and generosity.

Your generous donation will not only enable us to provide our animals with the medical care they need, but it will also help us to meet their social and behavioral needs as well. Our work to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home the many animals we serve in need is dependent on the generosity of our donors and supporters. We cannot do it without you!