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Your Commitment

To a Foster

Our fosters are tasked with ensuring the care and well-being for our dogs. As a foster, you make a commitment to:
  • Provide food and water, exercise, positive reinforcement, and plenty of love.
  • Bring your dog to adoption events when the foster coordinator requests your attendance.
  • Complete our personality form for your dog on a regular basis so that we can update their profile for prospective adopters to see.
  • Provide photos/videos for our social media team to promote your dog and participate in social media takeover on the RDR instagram account with your foster dog.
  • Work on basic training to help prepare them for their forever home. We have trainers if you need help!
Two Weeks or Less

Fosters willing to hold a dog for two weeks or less will meet our intake team and their foster dog on transport day or coordinate care from another foster, and provide a temporary home for their foster dog on their way to a forever home. This level of fostering is usually helping with weekend/holiday coverage for longer-term fosters, helping us get a dog out of boarding, or preventing a dog from entering boarding by providing a holding place between longer-term fosters. Fosters holding a dog for two weeks or less should be prepared to have that dog for the full window of time without a need for boarding or temp coverage by other fosters.

30 Days or Less

Fosters willing to hold a dog 30 days or less will meet our intake team and their foster dog on transport day or coordinate care from another foster, and provide a temporary home for their foster dog on their way to a forever home. In this 30-day window, fosters have access to temp coverage from our shorter-term fosters as needed and/or free boarding and daycare to make this as doable as possible. Should your dog not be adopted by the end of the 30-day window, they will be transferred to another available foster.

Full-Time Foster — Willing to Hold a Dog Until Adopted

Full-Time Fosters will meet our intake team and their foster dog on transport day or coordinate care from another foster, and provide a home for their foster dog until they are placed in their forever home. This can range from a few weeks to a few months. Full-time fosters have access to temp coverage from our shorter-term fosters as needed and/or free boarding and daycare to make this as doable as possible.

Medical/Special Needs (Includes Seniors and Puppies)

Medical/special needs fosters will meet our intake team and their foster dog on transport day or coordinate care from another foster, and provide a home for their foster dog until they are placed in their forever home. Common medical needs include dogs that are heartworm positive, senior dogs that require medicine and/or special accommodations, and unaltered or unvaccinated puppies with restrictions. This can range from a few weeks to a few months. Medical/special needs fosters have access to temp coverage from our shorter-term fosters as needed to make this as doable as possible.

Please Note:
  • If at any point you are considering adopting your foster dog, please notify the foster and adoption team immediately. If there are adoption applications already in progress or an approved adopter expresses interest in a dog before you let the foster team you’d like you adopt, they will receive priority. If you are primarily interested in adopting, please fill out an adoption application.
  • Breeds listed on our websites are merely a guess unless we know the dog is a purebred or have seen the parents. If breeds are important to you, please consider a breed-specific rescue.
  • We often do not have information on potty training, crate training, or leash manners on dogs coming directly from transport. If any of those are requirements for you, we suggest waiting to foster dogs that have already been in foster care and we know more about them.

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