What does it mean to foster?
"I am curious about fostering. What is involved?"
When you become a foster parent for a rescue dog, you bring a pet in need into your home and provide food, water, shelter, love and training or socialization to prepare them for their new, forever home.
The reasons a dog needs to be in a foster home include:
"Why should I foster a dog?"
Fostering a dog is one of the most rewarding experiences you can have (other than adopting, of course). By taking an animal in need temporarily into your home you’re:
If you think you would be interested in fostering a pet for CARES, click on the link below to fill out and submit a foster application. Your application will be reviewed and you will be contacted soon.
When you become a foster parent for a rescue dog, you bring a pet in need into your home and provide food, water, shelter, love and training or socialization to prepare them for their new, forever home.
The reasons a dog needs to be in a foster home include:
- A rescue group doesn’t have a physical shelter and depends on foster homes to care for dogs until suitable homes are found.
- A puppy is too young to be adopted and needs a safe place to stay until he or she is old enough to go to a forever home. Fosters raise their puppy, teaching them housetraining, obedience and socialize them to everything that they may encounter living in their forever homes.
- A dog is recovering from surgery, illness or injury and needs a safe place to recuperate.
- A dog is showing signs of stress such as pacing or hiding in the shelter. Many dogs do not handle a shelter environment well, especially after the distress of having their owners leave them. A foster home not only gets them readjusted to life in a home, but keeps them from developing nervous behaviors that can sometimes plague dogs that go into shelters.
- A dog has not lived in a home before or has not had much contact with people and needs to be socialized. Foster "parents" learn the dog's personality and can work with them to bring them out of their shell, or teach them that the world isn't scary. They learn how to interact with other dogs and people, so that their transition to their forever home is much smoother.
"Why should I foster a dog?"
Fostering a dog is one of the most rewarding experiences you can have (other than adopting, of course). By taking an animal in need temporarily into your home you’re:
- freeing up a spot so the shelter or rescue can take in another dog.
- giving your foster dog the time he needs to be ready for adoption.
- helping the shelter or rescue learn more about the dog so he can end up in the best home possible.
- socializing the dog to a home environment and possibly getting him used to being around other pets and different types of people.
If you think you would be interested in fostering a pet for CARES, click on the link below to fill out and submit a foster application. Your application will be reviewed and you will be contacted soon.