CURRENT FOSTERS: Click here for forms, handbooks, and other resources
What is Fostering?
Fostering means providing a safe temporary home for a dog in need. It’s a big responsibility with even bigger rewards!
And don’t worry - we are here to help with mentoring, backup, and supplies!
What You Give:
- A safe temporary home, including food, treats & toys.
- Patience (keep in mind that just like us humans, our four-legged friends aren’t perfect either).
- Your time.
- Filling out paperwork, requesting medications, taking your foster to vet appointments, keeping track of vaccines and preventatives, health certificates if traveling on transport
- Photos/videos and bio for your foster, for the rescue to use in order to market your foster dog.
- Speaking with potential adopters about your foster and approving them for adoption
- Meet and greets with local adopters
What You Get:
- The fulfilling feeling of saving a dog’s life.
- A playmate for your resident dog (if applicable).
- A buddy for your kids without the commitment of permanent adoption.
- Support from other fosters/boarding facilities when you go away for business or on vacation and can no longer foster.
- Love! While you may be saving the dog’s life, in many cases our dogs have saved the foster! There is nothing like the gratitude of a shelter dog to warm your heart!
- All vet costs are covered by ALDR provided that you visit one of the approved veterinarians.
- Ready for this challenge? Simply fill out our Foster Application below depending on your location:
What Kind of Dogs Can You Foster?
(Not sure? Ask us to help match you with the perfect foster dog!)
Puppies (single or multiple)
Adults
Pregnant/nursing mamas
Medical needs
Bottle babies
Seniors/hospice
Short on Time?
Consider Temp Fostering!
We always need help providing backup foster homes for foster families going on vacation or otherwise needing a temporary backup situation for their foster. Sometimes a dog just needs a temporary stay until they can go on transport to New England. Foster for a few days or weeks or maybe just overnight!
Having temp fostering resources helps us retain fosters when they know they can count on backup support when they need it. And that helps us save more dogs!
Can't Foster? There are Other Ways to Help!
Our committed volunteers coordinate the rescues of dogs that are hundreds of miles away, which often involves many steps including:
- Transport coordination to move the dog out of danger and into a foster home
- Foster recruitment and training
- Medical care and appointments
- Database management for medical records
- Marketing and photography
- Transport to the Northeast
- Application processing
- Website Posting
