Nine-month-old Heaton has been at McKamey Animal Center for four months. He is one of six dogs the center is seeking to place in foster care.
Contributed photoMcKamey Animal Care and Adoption Center is looking for participants in a newly revived foster program to provide half-way homes for animals.
Animal care coordinator Tricia Sebes said foster parents provide for basic care (food, water, bedding and toys) to animals that have problems adjusting to shelter life.
“It’s not committing to the animal full time, just taking the animal into your home until it finds its forever home,” Sebes said. “We’re lucky to have such a large facility, but we get more animals than we can hold sometimes.
“Having extra homes to put them in really helps us out.”
The center provides vaccinations and booster shots to the animals as well as medical attention should the need arise, Sebes said.