Thirteen-year-old Princess and her family were evicted from their home. She lived a temporary Pets for Life NYC foster home until her family found a new apartment. If not for this foster home, Princess would have ended up at the city shelter.
Photo by Suzan Fructman
Low-Cost Temporary Pet Boarding & Foster Care
If you live in the New York City area and are struggling with financial, housing, health, or personal problems that make it hard to care for your pets, these temporary pet care services may be the solution you — and your pets — need.
Pets for Life NYC (PFLNYC) is an animal surrender prevention program in New York City dedicated to helping people resolve problems that could otherwise lead them to surrender their pets to the city's animal shelter system. Most problems that lead to the surrender of pets are solvable. PFLNYC provides hands-on assistance and alternatives to clients who are considering relinquishing their pets because of problems such as life crises (including domestic violence, eviction, foreclosure, hospitalization, and house fires), pet behavioral issues, allergies, landlord-tenant disputes, pet illness, and lack of pet care knowledge. PFLNYC is committed to working through each client's problems in an effort to keep families and their animals together by offering a full spectrum of support and services.
If you know someone in the New York City area who needs assistance caring for or keeping their pets, call the Pets for Life NYC hotline at (917) 468-2938.
For more information about Pets for Life NYC, be sure to read When It's the Pet's Owner Who Needs Help by Jane Warshaw from the April 2011 issue of Out of the Cage!