Foster a Stray Dog Form – Stray2Me Rescue

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Thank you for applying to foster for us. We will create a chat with you and offer continuous support. We have a wealth of experience and expertise within the team and we are available virtually 24/7.

We ask that you are willing to foster for a minimum of one month before you ask for a dog to be moved. Of course, depending on the Stray, they may be with you for a shorter time, or longer. We particularly welcome applications from fosters who are willing to foster a variety of different dogs, from puppies to older dogs, confident dogs to nervous, shy dogs. Your role as foster is to prepare them for a successful adoption, so we ask that you work with them on toilet training, accepting the harness and lead and understanding household noises and routines. When the dog is ready to be walked outside of the home, a decision you and the team will have arrived at together, you must agree to use an escape proof harness as recommended, to keep any foster dog on a lead, and you must NEVER use a retractable lead. When taking the dog in the car, by law you must secure him/her, either in a crate, or with a seatbelt attachment.

Your Full Name, including surname*

Your address in full, including the street and town/city*

Your Postcode*

Your Email*

Your phone number*

Your landline

We use Facebook Messenger to communicate with you, conduct the virtual home check and to stay in touch should you be successful and adopt from us. It is the easiest way to share photos and videos.
Please provide the link to your Facebook or email us your Facebook photo so we can set up a chat with you.

If your application is a success, we ask that you keep in touch via either Messenger and that you send us periodic updates, including photos and videos. Do you agree to do so?

We also ask that you seek support from the team should you encounter any behavioural difficulties. Do you agree to do so?

What age category do you come under?

How many adults live in your home?*

If you live on your own, who would take care of the dog in an emergency?*

Are there children living in your home?*

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What ages are the children?*

What experience do your children have with dogs?*

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Are there children visiting your home?*

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What experience do the children have with dogs?*

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What type of property do you live in? Please describe your property in detail, for example number of rooms, terraced, detached, bungalow, flat. If a flat, what floor is your flat on? If a house or bungalow, does your front door open directly on to the path, or do you have an porch/internal door?

Do you have access to a garden?*

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Please describe your garden in detail. Size? Planting? Hard landscaping? How would you access it with a dog?

Please describe the security of your garden. What are the boundaries like – wooden panels? Hedges? If hedges, is there any wire within the hedges? What is the other side of the boundary?

Do you have a side gate? If so, does it have a lock? Does it have a spring closure fitted?

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How busy is the road you live on? How easily could a dog get to it?

Please describe, in detail, the area in which you live. For example: How much traffic is there? How fast is the traffic? How far are you from a motorway or railway line? How near are you to rural walks for a dog?

Is the property rented or owned?*

If the property is rented, do you have permission from the landlord to have a pet/more than one pet? (We will need to see written permission before we proceed to home check)*

Do you intend to move within the next 6 months?

Does anyone within the home have a physical or emotional condition which would impact on your ability to care for the dog which you are fostering?

If yes, please give details in order to help us match you to a suitable foster, where appropriate

Do you have any pets already?*

If yes, please describe your current pets (sterilised/not sterilised, breed, breed mix, sex, age, size, temperament)

If applicable, how would you introduce your new foster dog to any existing pets?

Do you have any rescue experience?*

Please describe your rescue experience / experience of dog or cat ownership. What types of behaviour have you dealt with? What training methods or approaches have you used which have been successful?

Have you ever given up or rehomed one of your own dogs before?

If yes, please explain the circumstances

If you or others in your household work, please describe the working arrangements of everyone in the home, and for how many hours a day a dog or cat would be left alone. Please include travel time to and from your place of work.*

If you are going out and you cannot take the foster dog with you, where would you leave it and for approximately how long might you leave it?

What type of walks do you have access to? Can you walk there or would you have to drive? How often would you walk the foster dog and for how long ?

What will you do to help socialise a dog cat and prepare it for adoption? Please give as much detail as possible.

How will you ensure you do not create any separation anxiety in the foster dog?

Why are you applying to foster? Why do you think you would be a suitable foster?

What type of dog are you willing to foster? Size? Age? Gender?

What types of behaviour are you willing to deal with? Please give as much detail as possible.

Are you able to consider a dog with behavioural or medical problems?

If you answered Yes to the above, what behavioural or medical problems are you comfortable dealing with?

For what length of time are you prepared to foster?

Do you have previous experience of fostering?

If yes, please give as much detail as possible, and names of people or organisations who can be contacted for a reference.

Are there any behaviours that you feel you could not take on and work through with a foster?

What would make you ask for the foster to be moved by the rescue?

What do you know about what life is like for dogs in Romania?

If you are applying to foster a dog from Romania, why are you applying for a dog born in Romanian, and not a dog born in the UK?*

When would be the best time to contact you? Please keep an eye on your spam since we email every applicant, whether their application is successful or not.

Are you completing this form yourself or are you completing it on behalf of another? If the latter, please explain your relationship to the applicant.*

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