Partner Organizations

Town Lake Animal Center works closely with a number of Placement Partner organizations in order to save more homeless pets. We transfer about 11% of the animals that come in to the shelter to our partners.

What is a Partner Organization?

Partner organizations (mostly non-profit rescue groups, other shelters, and specialists in exotic animals) provide temporary care and shelter to animals and then try to find responsible lifetime homes for them.

Our Placement Partners are carefully screened and their programs reviewed and monitored by the shelter. However, they are independent organizations with their own policies, fees, and adoption requirements.

The benefit of partnering with these groups is that many of them are able to provide significantly more veterinary evaluation and treatment, as well as more complete behavioral evaluation of animals than Town Lake Animal Center is able to provide. The groups will frequently accept animals that are in poor health or that need behavioral rehabilitation that the shelter cannot provide because of the huge number of animals we have to manage. This means that together, we’re able to save and eventually re-home far more animals.

Due to their smaller size, many of our partners are also able to provide more thorough counseling to people considering adopting a new pet. This is very important for some breeds of dogs and cats, as many have special needs that adopters must understand fully.

List of Our Placement Partners

Click here to see the list of Approved Dog & Cat Placement Partners

Foster Homes Needed

If you’d like to provide a safe, caring temporary home for a homeless pet or for a litter of kittens or puppies, please consider volunteering with one of the Town Lake Animal Center’s Placement Partners to provide a "foster" home!

Town Lake Animal Center partners with the Placement Partners in the community (also called "rescue groups") who take over the care and re-homing responsibilities of thousands of dogs, cats, pups, and kittens that arrive at the shelter each year. These hard-working volunteer organizations always need more good, loving foster homes to help them save more homeless pets.

Foster homes provide temporary housing, real-life behavior evaluation, socialization and training for animals waiting for adoption through the placement group’s adoption program.

If you would like to be contacted by one of our partner organizations about possibly opening your home to an animal or litter that needs foster care, please send us an E-mail with "Interested in Providing Foster Care" in the subject line and include your contact information. Be sure to include which type or breed of animal you're interested in having in your home. We will pass your information on to our Partners, who can then contact you with more information about their program on how you might get involved. Keep in mind that you may be contacted by more than one organization.

Thanks for your interest in helping homeless pets!