08/24/2026
Our inbox and voicemail is filled with surrender requests daily. It breaks my heart but we can only take what we have fosters for.
Please consider fostering.
It is literally saving a life.
One of my MANY calls this week is about 2 dogs that are in a home by themselves. The owner is in a nursing home. The elderly owner shouldnt have got these 2 dogs only 2-3 years ago to begin with but… thats a rant for another time.
The guy who this responsibility is UNWANTEDLY falling on has contacted everyone BUT everyone is full. I have contacted rescues, shelters and more on his behalf as well because we are FULL and dont have large dog fosters available right now either.
The owner wants him to take them in the backyard in Homestead to shoot them.
This is only ONE of the many calls this week.
I don’t sleep at night because my mind races with thoughts of what will happen to the hundreds of animals we get called about each week. They didnt ask for sh*tty homes or even to be born but its the voiceless that suffer.
This is not my paid job. It’s not a paid job for anyone in our rescue This was a passion that i thought that more than a few people cared about. Stupidly, I once thought if we built a caring, ethical rescue, people would come and want to help to give a new beginning to pets that didnt deserve the sucky beginning they were handed.
Every one of our dedicated fosters do what they can to help but the few are getting burned out by the many of non-stop surrenders, abandoned, neglected, irresponsibly owned animals that shouldn’t be in the position they are in.
My god! We pay for everything. We provide support. We give you every resource that we can.
It literally does not cost a foster for a piece of kibble or a crate or anything else.
Just love and a soft spot to land. The rewards are worth it.
So if you want to help and can give a small nook of your home and heart temporarily to a pet in need and to keep me from needing ambien and a psych visit, please
apply to become a foster.
Www.animallifelinepgh.org
Go to the foster page and apply!
We need fosters for big, small, old, young, sassy, sweet and everything in between.