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Foster A Golden Today!
The number of RAGOM fosters directly affects the number of dogs we can rescue. Foster care provides a temporary home that helps RAGOM determine a dog’s needs in a forever home. A foster home also provides the adoptive family with helpful information about the dog to ease transition and ensure a successful adoption.
Providing a Loving, and Safe New Start
Overall Role of Foster Homes
- Provide a stable home – perhaps for the first time in the dog's life
- Ensure you have the time to provide care and instill a loving human-dog relationship
- Understand that some foster dogs may have behaviors that are not of your typical of Golden Retriever
Essential To-Dos For Foster Homes
- Provide food, exercise, and basic wellness
- Keep the dog safe by following all RAGOM's policies and procedures
- Schedule and attend veterinary appointments
- Improve the dog’s basic obedience
- Build the dog’s confidence
- Work with our medical and behavioral teams, when necessary
What it Takes to Find a Forever Homes
- Inspire adoption through weekly updates for the dogs website
- Evaluate the dog’s needs to determine the best forever home
- Collaborate with other RAGOM volunteers to support the dog’s needs
- Talk with and meet potential applicants, their families, their dogs in your home
- Understand foster care requires basic computer knowledge and skills
Fostering Process
Fostering is a major responsibility, but it’s also a rewarding opportunity to change a dog’s life forever.