I had an interesting email today about a program I didn’t even know existed. This program, called Operation Noble Foster, provides temporary foster homes for cats owned by military personnel. While Operation Noble Foster focuses on fosters for cats, NetPets.org works to find fosters for military non-cat pets.
Operation Noble Foster was started by Linda Mercer who runs Purebred Cat Breed Rescue, a group I have worked with in the past, as they pull purebred cats from shelters and find homes for them.
I cannot tell you what wonderful services I think Operation Noble Foster and NetPets.org are providing. So many times, I hear of military personnel who cannot find anyone to take their pets when they are being deployed and the animals end up at a shelter or in the care of someone who does not really want them. Sadly, many animals also are abandoned because the military person cannot find any other solution on short notice.
As we just have come from celebrating Memorial Day, let’s remember our military in another special way–by helping them keep their pets, pets that are often the one point of stability in their lives and a source of unending comfort.
If you would like to do a very important job and foster military pets until their owners can return home to them, please check out the links below. Or if you know anyone in the military who needs help placing their pet, please guide them to these sites as well.
To learn more about NetPets.org’s foster program: https://www.netpets.org/netp/foster.php
To learn how you can foster for Operation Noble Foster: http://operationnoblefoster.org/basics_foster.htm
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