Pet Care

Top 5 Reasons to Foster an Animal in Need

This week, we celebrated the first-ever ASPCA National Animal Foster Appreciation Week—an entire week dedicated to celebrating our incredible foster caregivers. These compassionate people help so many animals along their journeys toward loving homes, and they deserve the biggest THANK YOU! Being a foster caregiver is so rewarding, and we hope that in honor of […]

Pet Care

Is Fostering a Mistake? Get the REAL Scoop on Foster Dogs

During the month of October, we’re taking time to celebrate our rescued canine counterparts and encourage our friends nationwide to open their hearts and their homes to a dog in need—even if just temporarily as a foster caregiver.  An important step in the journeys of countless shelter animals is time in foster homes, and sadly, […]

Pet Care

Two Former Foster Cats Find Each Other

Megan T. had been living in Los Angeles for just two weeks when she spotted a flyer at her local Petco offering opportunities to foster kittens for the ASPCA. “I thought fostering would be a good introduction to having a cat or dog,” says Megan, who joined the ASPCA’s L.A. Kitten Foster program and took […]

Health News

Virtual reality may help foster learning and collaboration across health professions

A virtual world may be a feasible learning platform for bringing together students from different healthcare professions and enhancing their understanding of collaborative patient care and knowledge of other health professions, according to a pilot study led by researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine and published online in the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Interprofessional […]

Kids Health

Increase seen in foster care entries due to parental drug use

(HealthDay)—The number of foster care entries attributable to parental drug use increased considerably from 2000 to 2017, according to a research letter published online July 15 in JAMA Pediatrics. Angélica Meinhofer, Ph.D., from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and Yohanis Angleró-Díaz, M.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, analyzed data from the […]

Kids Health

Why I Became a Single Foster Mom at 34

The nightmares started immediately: I dream I’m sleeping soundly and awake to a pounding on the door so loud it rattles the walls and renders the white-noise machine useless. It’s the Administration for Children’s Services, and they’re here to take my baby.   One caseworker is carrying an oversize black duffel bag and starts filling […]