Foster
Foster Overview
Fostering for Reborn Animal Rescue, Inc. is a gratifying and worthwhile experience that allows you to make a significant difference in the lives of pets in need. By fostering, you can work closely with animals, learn their habits and individual personalities, and provide them with a safe and loving environment while their owners seek mental health treatment, hospitalization, or escape domestic violence. Our focus is on facilitating reunification with their owners. There are many compelling reasons to foster, including:
- Fostering can be fun and extremely rewarding!
- Foster homes give animals the chance to adjust to loving environments while their owners are undergoing critical support, ensuring they remain safe and cared for during this challenging time.
- Fostering allows you to rehabilitate special-needs animals, providing them with the care and attention they require during a crucial period.
- Fostering gives you the opportunity to teach animals new skills, enhancing their well-being while they wait to be reunited with their owners.
- Fostering increases the chances of successful reunification: Foster parents can share specific details about an animal with their owners, including any special needs, personality traits, behavior, level of training, and dietary considerations.
- Fostering with Reborn Animal Rescue allows you to choose the species that best suits your home environment and schedule, ensuring a good match for both you and the animals.
By becoming a foster parent, you play a crucial role in our mission to provide a safe haven for pets during their owners' times of crisis. Your support helps us keep families together when they are facing mental health challenges or domestic violence situations, ensuring that no one has to choose between their safety and their pet's wellbeing.
Foster Application Process
In order to become a foster home for Reborn Animal Rescue, an individual must meet the following criteria:
- Be 21 years or older to foster an animal.
- Complete the Reborn Animal Rescue Foster Application (online)
- Provide appropriate information on your background, including but not limited to, previous volunteer experience and animal care experience.
- Have a valid Connecticut state driver's license if you wish to transport animals.
- Be without any conflict of interest with any activity or program of RAR, whether personal, philosophical or financial.
- You will be notified that your application is approved or denied. The board of directors of RAR has the discretion to deny any foster application.
- If your application is approved, Reborn Animal Rescue will connect you with the appropriate team member to contact about next steps.
- Participate in an orientation with a Reborn Animal Rescue representative.
- Receive/Review the Volunteer Manual.
- Complete and sign all appropriate forms and agreements contained in the Volunteer Manual, including the Volunteer Agreement form on the last page.
The foster approval process may take between two and three weeks, depending on applicant's availability and our workload.
We know you will be an excellent part of our team and look forward to saving animals together!
