Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays is back and the shelter is under construction!

If you’re staying in town for the holiday season and have extra room in your home, you can foster a dog, cat, or small companion animal and give them a much-deserved break from their kennels over the holidays! We’re preparing for construction and need your help to get as many animals as possible into temporary foster homes.

• Basic supplies will be provided by the shelter – please see the list below.
• Foster families must be able to pick up a pet at the shelter between Dec 7-23, and be able to keep them in their home until at least Jan 12.
• Foster families must live in Virginia, Maryland, or D.C., and cannot travel out of the area with their foster pets.
• Foster families must follow all rules and guidelines of our foster program.
• Foster families will be matched up with a pet on a first-come, first-match basis, and we cannot guarantee every family interested in taking part will be able to foster a pet.

If you are interested in fostering a pet during our Home for the Holidays event, please visit the shelter on a day you can bring home a foster pet to be matched up with a pet. AWLA cannot guarantee a foster placement.

If you choose to adopt your foster pet at the end of the foster period, you’ll get 50% off your adoption fee!

AWLA will provide:
Dogs: food, leash, harness.
Cats: food, bowls, litter box, litter, bed, toys.
Small companion animals: enclosure, food, hay and CareFresh bedding (fosters will need to refill these themselves), litter box, enrichment items, bowls.
Due to our current supply inventory, all other items must be purchased by the foster family.