Fostering a pet is a short-term way to make a lifetime of difference for a dog looking for a 2nd chance to find a safe and loving home. It simply means temporarily opening your home to dogs in need and giving them love and care while they wait to be adopted. A rescue facility can be a noisy and stressful place, especially for shy and frightened animals. Fosters can change that by providing a loving, quiet place for pets to learn, and trust. When you foster a dog, you’re helping to save even more lives by freeing up space in our shelter for additional animals. 

Typical responsibilities in the day of a dog foster caregiver include feeding, caring for, socializing, and teaching basic obedience skills (leash training, sit, etc). We will also ask you to keep an account of the dog’s strengths and improvement opportunities. For example, are they good with cats, children, other dogs? Are they high energy or couch potatoes Understanding the individual traits of the dog enables us to match them with the right household when seeking out their forever family.