Our Sponsors

Thanks to all those who have donated money, time and materials, including these sponsors:

Chase Animal Hospital
1760 Highway 72E, Huntsville, AL, 35811 256-851-PAWS

Cornerstone Animal Hospital
433 Slaughter Road, Madison, AL, 35758 256-971-0411

The Pet Hospital of Madison
12100 County Line Rd, Madison, AL, 35758 256-232-2289

Animal Care Clinic
11351 South Memorial Pkwy, Huntsville, AL, 35758 256-882-2525

Madison Animal Care Hospital
4044 South Sullivan Street, Madison, AL, 35758   256-461-7575

Volunteer

We are always in need of volunteers! If you are interested in donating your time and effort to help the animals, please email us at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Foster Homes for Animals         

We are in desperate need of individuals and families to provide foster homes for the animals we rescue. A foster home is a place to temporarily care for an animal until it can be placed (adopted) into a forever-home.

If you can foster a pet, please visit our foster page.

Fund Raising and Public Awareness

We need volunteers to participate in our fund raising events and public awareness campaigns. There's a lot of effort involved in raising funds for the construction of a rescue-friendly animal shelter in Madison.

Animal Shelter Planning

Do you have expertise in planning, constructing and maintaining an animal shelter? We need volunteers to get temporary shelter in place and our permanent shelter built.

Youth Volunteers - MARF's PUPS 

PUPS is a group of MARF middle school and high school students, gathered to support MARF and help homeless animals.
If you are interested in PUPS, please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  and include your age, school, and grade, and we'll sign you up!

We welcome young volunteers. We do ask that volunteers under the age of 16 be accompanied by a parent.

Foster an Animal

Get started toward your first foster today!      

Foster parents are special people providing a special place for an animal in need. Without our Foster Friends, many of the pets we try to save would have their lives ended. When you provide this temporary safe haven, you give a dog or cat time to readjust and time to learn to be part of a family.

The main goal of fostering an animal is to make it adoptable. This involves more than just providing shelter; it is your responsibility to show the animal how to be a pet and what it is like to live in a typical home situation. Most of these animals are strays and have come from unknown and likely unstable situations. You play a vital role in the rehabilitation and adoption process for the animal you foster. They need your help to become healthy, trusting, well-behaved companions for their forever-home.

MARF pays the vet bills, including heartworm and flea/tick medications. The foster home provides for the dog’s food, treats and toys and is not reimbursed for those expenses by MARF. However, we often receive donations of food and supplies and these are dispersed to all fosters when available.

You will have total say when it comes to selecting the animal you foster (breed, size, age, etc.) All we ask is that you bring your foster to our adoption events and to any vet appointments he or she might need. Transportation can be provided if necessary.

Fostering can be a lot of work and responsibility. Some of these animals were never provided proper socialization or medical care and therefore are not perfectly behaved or impeccably groomed. Most of our animals come from deplorable situations and may need a lot of tender loving care to get them cleaned up, taught how to trust again, or just simply experience what it’s like to be loved and cherished!

Before applying to become a new foster home, please ask yourself (and your family members) if you have enough time and patience to care properly for a rescue animal. Fostering can be an incredibly rewarding labor of love, and you can make all the difference in the world to the dogs or cats that you foster.

Being a foster is a selfless act which can be surprisingly rewarding. If you are ready to invite a homeless pet into your home, please fill out and submit a foster application. Feel free to email any questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please understand there is no sure way to determine how quickly an animal will get adopted. Some may get adopted very quickly while others may take weeks and even months.

Foster Application