Lacey Shelter Seeks Cat Foster Homes During Coronavirus

LACEY, NJ — The Associated Humane Popcorn Park Shelter is seeking temporary foster homes for some cats during the novel-coronavirus outbreak. The shelter would like to alleviate some of the staff's workload during the pandemic.

The Popcorn Park shelter will take the cats back once the pandemic ends, unless any of the owners want to permanently adopt them.

New Jersey reached 11,124 total positive cases Saturday, including 140 deaths, Murphy announced. Read more: Gov. Murphy: NJ Coronavirus Cases Top 11K, 32 More Deaths

The cats in need of foster homes don't live in the shelter's free-roaming areas for one of the following reasons:

• they don't get along with other cats
• they have the feline immunodeficiency virus
• they are shy, and cat caretakers are working individually with them

Fosters should have a room in their home where they can separate cats from other pets. People will undergo the same screening process that adopters normally go through. Popcorn Park will provide food and litter if needed.

The Center for Disease Control has not received any reports of pets getting sick with COVID-19.

If you're able to provide a temporary home, call 609-693-1900 and ask for Cathi, or email: office@ahsppz.org.

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