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Foster a pet for the holidays through Santa Barbara Co Animal Services

and last updated 2020-12-17 21:01:32-05 Santa Barbara County Animal Services is offering families and individuals the chance to foster a pet during the holidays. Foster Express starts Saturday and goes through Jan. 9. Staff members say this program gives pets a chance to spend the holidays curled up in a cozy home instead of a shelter cage. Families can take home a cat or dog for two-weeks. The 2019 Foster Express was deemed a tremendous success and nearly all of the animals were with a family for the holidays. If foster parents fall in love with their pet, they can adopt them for half the regular fee.

Shelter Pets Seeking Foster Homes For the Holidays

Housing and Development Newsletter “We are hoping that this year will be equally successful as people over the last year have learned first-hand the benefits of animal companionship during the long months of social distancing and isolation brought about by COVID-19,” said Michelle Maltun, SBCAS community outreach coordinator. “As humans, we need to have a purpose and to feel needed, said SBCAS director Angela Yates. For people living alone and the elderly, pets can help them feel needed and give them a greater purpose, especially during this holiday season when they may feel more disconnected from loved ones.” The Foster Express not only allows shelter animals some time away from the often stressful kennel, it gives the shelters information on how their animals behave in a home environment as opposed to a noisy shelter.

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