To be considered as a foster, you must:
- Be 18 years of age
- If you rent, your landlord must approve
- Have all other pets in the home spayed/neutered and up to date on age-appropriate vaccines
- Keep all companion animals indoors (resident and foster)
- Provide adequate exercise and basic care
FAQs
Fosters provide temporary, in-home care for dogs and cats while they wait to find their forever home. Fosters provide basic daily care such as feeding and exercise, as well as things such as housetraining, how to walk on a leash, socialization, and lots of love and patience!
It is not always easy. Many of the animals come from reservations where they often live outside and have never been in a kennel, walked on a leash, or had consistent meals. Fostering requires dedication, hard work, and time commitments.
Fosters are responsible for getting their foster to one of Rescue Networks partner vet clinics as well as being in good communication with their coordinators and potential adopters.
There is no set answer to this. The amount of time for each foster varies depending on their age and medical and behavior needs. With this, fosters must have dedication to keep the foster until they are adopted. This can take days to months.
Yes! This is the joy of fostering. Fosters get first dibs! Fosters are still required to submit an adoption application and go through the process. We do ask that foster let their coordinator know within five days, otherwise they may be posted on the website and be available to the public.
Rescue Network assumes responsibility for all necessary expenses related to the dogs and cats’ well-being (kennel, food, collar, leash, toys, etc.). Any reimbursement must be pre-approved by Rescue Network prior to purchase. All veterinary expenses will be covered by Rescue Network.
Absolutely! We do require all resident animals to be spayed and neutered as well as up to date on vaccines. This is to ensure that your resident animals can stay healthy as some animals needing foster may have health issues that can be passed onto other animals. Rescue Network is not responsible for any illness or injury to your pet caused by a foster animal. You are fostering at your own risk.
