What Is Involved in Fostering an Animal?
AARCS pays all reasonable expenses, including but not limited to, all veterinary care and food and when available provide other items such as toys, treats, kennels, etc. Foster homes provide a safe, loving environment until a suitable adoptive home is found and assists in providing basic training, house-training, and transportation to vet appointments, etc.
Top 10 Reasons to Foster:
More foster homes means more animals rescued and that means more lives saved.
You get to show and teach your foster animal what it is to be a happy, loved family pet.
It’s fun!!!
You undoubtedly will get attached but when you meet the new family that’s ready to provide a permanent, loving forever-home for the animal you helped rescue through fostering, you will feel more than satisfied to see him move on to his new life.
Increased “human interaction” greatly helps foster animals who often come from neglectful or abusive situations… and let’s not forget what “animal interaction” can do for you.
Fostering increases the likelihood of adoption and dramatically reduces the chances of an animal being returned.
If you already have one or more animals, one more won’t make a difference to you, but it sure will make a difference to the animal who might otherwise not have a second chance at life.
Fostering provides a great lesson to your children about compassion, nurturing, and generosity and it’s a wonderful, life-affirming experience for an entire family, a couple, or a single individual.
Animals that have endured hardship can really use a loving home, one in which they can get used to living with people again.
Animal companionship without a lifetime commitment.
Conditions for Fostering:
Must be 18 years of age or older and all members of the household in agreement;
All current animals in the home must be up-to-date on their vaccinations (some exceptions allowed);
All current animals in the home must be spayed/neutered, unless reasonable explanation (i.e. medical condition, too young);
Must have reliable transportation to bring foster animals to appointments at the vet and/or shelter;
Ideally a completely fenced yard for dog foster homes, but we do have exceptions depending on the circumstances and type of dogs;
Commitment to the duration of the time the animal is in foster care, anywhere from two weeks to four months+ (dependent on the animal and the time of year); and
Signed waiver & release.