Did you know that you can become a puppy foster parent? Perhaps you don’t want to commit to owning a dog full time, or you don’t want to commit the next ten years to worrying about your dog, but love dogs. 

Most people think of Puppy Foster Care as a way to raise dogs for programs such as law enforcement, seeing eye dogs, and other service dogs. However, you can also become a foster parent of a puppy as a way to rescue them from a dog shelter. 

Animal fostering is a great way to help rescued animals in need (mostly puppies and kittens of course).  The fostering time can vary from days to weeks depending on the amount of care or behavior modification that is required to make the dog more desirable for adoption. 

There are many reasons why Puppy Foster Care has become popular. The biggest one is the overcrowding of kennels.  Your Foster home can provide space until space becomes available, or until a suitable adoption can be made. 

Puppy Foster Parents may perform the following tasks

• Provide medical care after an illness or injury – this includes highly contagious diseases such as kennel cough that could become a plague on a shelter. 
• Care for unweaned orphans
• Correct Behavioral problems – larger, untrained breeds, who are still puppies, but have developed into their terrible twos may have been sent on a one way trip because of an unfortunate accident. Once trained, they’ll be ready for adoption. 

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