Fostering Requirements:
1. BARK ARK foster homes must be located within driving distance of BARK ARK. BARK ARK proceeds with a home check before approving a foster home.
2. If you do not own your home, you need to provide your landlord's phone number for verification that you can have a foster dog in your home. We also need to verify BSL in your area.
4. We occasionally look for short-term foster situations but we usually need long-term foster homes. Dogs can be stressed from being bounced from foster home to foster home. It also makes our jobs harder if we have to keep moving a dog from one "temporary" home to another.
5. We need understanding and patient foster Moms and Dads to commit to keeping a dog until it is place in a permanent home. Placement times for a BARK ARK rescued dog can vary from 6 months or more, or as short as a week. The dogs in foster care are kept "as long" as needed to find them the most suitable home. When it comes to a challenging breed to place like Pit Bull dogs, this often means several months in foster care. If you can’t commit to keeping the dog as long as it takes, fostering a Pit bull is probably not a good idea. We ask our foster homes for at least 4 months commitment.
6. Our Foster Homes should set a good example and meet our adoption requirements. This means that all pets in the foster home should be altered. Dogs should be kept inside the house, unless in a safe and secure kennels "approved" by BARK ARK and only in good weather. Foster homes should respect city limit regarding the number of animals in home.
7. Foster homes must fill out BARK ARK Foster Contract.
What BARK ARK will provide to a foster home:
1. All flea and heartworm prevention for the foster dog if desired.
2. All authorized veterinary care for the foster dog.
3. Pre-evaluation, pictures, and promotion of the foster dog in several web sites and adoption events. We will also screen applications and do home checks.
4. Support and aid for you for any questions you have along the way, including training questions.
5. If we can, we will loan crates, leash, dog dishes, etc, for the foster dog.
6. The knowledge that you are giving a dog extra time to live, and another chance to find a loving, safe home!
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