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What Happens to Pets When Their Owners are Military?

Monday, February 07, 2005

When military personnel are deployed overseas, a problem arises with what to do with their pets. Most kennels won't board pets for more than 2 to 3 months. This article points out that there isn't any kind of organization set up to address this.
Deployment can mean being gone as long as 18 months, and those who don't have family or close friends in the area often struggle to find longterm solutions. Some give up their pets for adoption. Some abandon them. Some get lucky and connect with small, informal local networks of pet foster parents -- one sponsored by 4-H.

When troops started leaving Fort Lewis and McChord bound for Afghanistan and Iraq, the Humane Society began logging names and numbers of people willing to provide foster care for pets. But the effort was dropped when there were no takers initially.
What is needed is some kind of nationwide organization of foster-pet-parents willing to take these pets on a long-term basis, with a possibility they may have to keep them permanently, if a dog's owner never comes back.

2 Comments:

  • There is an website: www.netpets.org
    they are looking for foster homes for military pets for 6 months.
    If you have room in your home and hearts, this is a good way to give a little back to service men and women.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:57 PM, February 07, 2005  

  • I have taken in 2 cats older 12& 14, from a women that was shipped out to CA and then to Germany then onto IRAQ.I did not mind taking them in she obviously had a good reason.In fact she did not want to put them to sleep, because she was leaving either.This definitely would be a great thing to start,Going to check out the site Thanks:)

    By Blogger Jodi, at 9:26 PM, February 13, 2005  

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