BE A HERO. CHANGE A LIFE.

Open Your Home.
Help Save a Life.

Love changes everything.

Fostering provides a temporary, safe environment while a dog receives veterinary care, training, and rehabilitation, and waits for the right adoptive family.

Because we're a foster-based rescue, foster homes are the backbone of everything we do.

Love changes everything.
You provide the home.
We handle the rest.
Foster dog surrounded by Packin In The Pawz signs and a Fostering Saves Lives chalkboard
Why Fostering Matters

The number of dogs we can save is directly tied to the number of available foster homes. Every foster home opened means another dog pulled from a dangerous situation.

What Foster Families Do

Provide a safe home, patience, and love; help with medical appointments, learn, provide, videos, and updates; and support meet-and-greets with potential adopters.

What the Rescue May Provide

Guidance, and approved supplies or medical support according to each dog's needs. (Exact supplies provided are confirmed by the rescue.)

Foster Expectations

Careful introductions to your household, attending scheduled vet appointments, ongoing communication with the rescue, and keeping safety a priority.

Ready to make a life-saving difference?
We're here to support you every step of the way.
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Application to Foster a Dog

PLEASE COMPLETE THE ENTIRE APPLICATION AND ANSWER EVERY QUESTION.
Section 1 — Applicant Information
1. Name
2. Maiden name or other variations
3. Date of birth
4. Full name of spouse / partner / roommate (anyone living in the household)
5. Date of birth
6. Address
7. City
8. State
9. Zip
10. County
11. Home phone
12. Cell phone
13. Email address
14. Name of pet to foster
15. Why would you like to foster?
16. How would you describe your pet experiences?
17. How many children live with you?
18. Please list ages
Section 2 — Home & Daily Care
19. Do you live in a:
20. Do you:
21. If you rent or lease — landlord’s name
22. Landlord’s phone number
23. How long have you lived at the above address?
24. Where do you plan to keep this dog during the day? (check all that apply)
25. How many hours per day will the dog be unattended?
26. Where will the foster dog stay at night? (be specific)
27. Is the yard fenced in?
28. Please describe your yard: (Example: Pool w/ Lanai, Pool w/o Lanai, size of yard)
29. Size of yard
Section 3 — Fencing & Exercise
30. Type of fencing?
31. Fence height?
32. How is the fence secured?
33. Are there any areas under the fence that the dog is able to escape from?
34. Will fenced yard access be supervised or unsupervised?
36. If other, please describe.
35. If you have no fence, how will you exercise the foster dog? (check all that apply)
Section 4 — Pet History & Experience
37. Describe pets that you or your current partner (adult who lives with you) have owned in the past ten years. Do not include childhood pets or pets owned by your parents. Include: name, breed, age, sex, spayed or neutered, kept inside or outside, how long owned, and what happened to the pet (or still have).
Name
Breed
Age
Sex (M/F)
Spayed / Neutered (Y/N)
Inside / Outside
How Long Owned
What Happened to the Pet (or still have)
38. Have any of your pets bit another dog before?
39. Do you have any prior experience working with a dog from another rescue?
40. If so, what rescue?
41. Have you ever sold, surrendered or given away a pet?
42. If yes, explain.
Section 5 — Foster Readiness
43. How would you react if this pet had a potty accident in the house?
44. A newly fostered or adopted dog may want to spend as much time with his / her new family as possible during their transition into your home and may want to sit on the sofa or sleep in bed with you. How do you feel about this?
45. How much time are you willing to give this foster to adjust to its new environment?
46. This animal may not be housebroken or may be only partly housebroken. Are you willing to take the time to work with him / her?
47. How will you plan to keep your dogs separate from the foster dog while the foster decompresses? It is advisable not to put dogs together without proper meet and greets.
48. Who is the veterinarian or veterinarians who have provided care for your current and previous pets?
49. How do you feel about spaying / neutering?
50. When you go on vacation, who will care for your foster dog?
51. What reasons would cause you to consider giving your foster dog back, or cause you to no longer be willing to commit to him / her? (check all that apply)
Section 6 — References & Employment
Rescue will need this information on hand because the rescue may be able to provide room for boarding at the rescue’s expense at their boarding facility.
52. Reference #1
53. Reference #2
54. Current employer name
55. Position or title
56. Address
57. City
58. State
59. Zip code
60. Work phone number
61. How long have you been with this employer?
62. Is there anything else you would like to tell us or ask us?
Section 7 — Agreement
Thank you for your interest in fostering and saving a life! Our goal in rescuing animals is to provide them with a loving home for the rest of their lives. Upon receipt of your completed application, it will be reviewed and the rescue will get back to you within 48 hours. If adopting, a separate adoption application will need to be filled out. The rescue reserves the right to refuse fosters for any reason in the best interest of the dog. I verify that I have answered all questions truthfully. If any information in this foster application is found to be false, we will send an email with an opportunity to make corrections. If we do not hear back with corrections within 48 hours, we will close your application. If any information comes to light as false after choosing to foster, we may confiscate the foster animal. We reserve the right to refuse placement of any animal. We require a home visit and require that all members of the family, including other pets, visit with this animal prior to fostering. While fostering, potential adopters may want to do meet and greets with the foster pet, and the foster dog must be made available within 3 days so the dog has the opportunity to be adopted.
Name (please print)
Date
Signature
Thank you for contacting rescue!

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