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FOSTER EXPECTATIONS

!) Please ensure that you understand our decompression protocols and that you follow them. A link to these are always provided in contract emails but they are always available on the website at any time.

2)We expect that pictures will be taken and shared, at least 3 times a week. We won’t object to daily updates! Suggestions for photos: straight on showing a good portrait, while they are interacting with other animals, while they are interacting with kids. Please don’t take photos of the dog laying upside down, or looking up at you as you stand behind them, this doesn’t show a potential adopter the best side to the dog!

3) Expectations for home life: working on skills (if necessary) like crate training, leash training, sit/stay/come, potty training if necessary. Are they better on a harness than a collar? Work on inappropriate chewing tendencies if present or help to cope with separation anxieties.

4) Things to note in posts might be:

a) likes/dislikes, how they interact with other animals, whether they are exposed to cats or other dogs, or even other animals like farm animals.

b) Do they like to go for rides?

c)Do they exhibit any signs of separation anxiety? Are they good with toys? Do they chew on things they are not supposed to?

d) Please make sure that you set your posts to public, and tag the rescue in every one of them!

Please join other Facebook groups besides the Pulled From the Pits page such as Adoptable Pets of Maine, or any other FB group that might help in networking to find our pet their forever home.

5) Don’t forget to mention to go to the website www.pulledfromthepits.com to see more information about the animal and to apply for adoption. If you are not sure how to post to these places, please send pictures and information to us through messenger or email.

6) Once your animal is adopted, and you have been directed to release the animal to their new family please try to get a few good pictures of them before they go home, we love to see happy endings!!

The goal is to get these dogs to their new homes as fast as possible. We want to limit their time in foster care, not because we don’t have great foster families, but because it is a much easier transition on these animals if they aren’t being bounced around too much.

Under NO circumstances are the animals in your care to be released to anyone without authorization from the rescue.

If you are contacted by anyone (other than your direct friends and family) asking questions about the animal you are fostering, please direct them to contact the rescue. If they continue to try to contact you please notify us immediately.

The foster family’s job is SO important to making the lives of these dogs the best that it can be. Thank you for helping us. Without all of you, we couldn’t save all of them.