Foster Care - Care for shelter animals in your home.

We continue to make great strides in finding more loving homes than ever before for shelter animals.

These houses are elevated 10-12 feet off the ground in order to avoid water damage and shelter animals from the elements.

Twelve states, including New York, restrict the sale of shelter animals for research.

Giving a home to a shelter animal is a wonderful thing to do.

Staff and volunteers can make sure shelter animals are well socialized before being adopted out to avoid similar issues.

The law applies only to shelter animals, which represent 10 percent of companion-animal adoptions.

In New York City, where 30,000 to 40,000 shelter animals are killed each year, the bill will have virtually no impact.

However, disease issues should be considered with shelter animals.

Some shelter animals are transported to Northern states where there is no overpopulation problem.