Volunteering for GDROC
| The Foster Application Process: Step 1: Fill out a volunteer application and mail it to us (see contacts page) Step 2: Our volunteers will check your references, and this make take a few days. *Steps 3&4 only apply to those volunteers interested in fostering Step 3: A volunteer will call to schedule a homevisit. Step 4: Your application as well as homevisit information will be reviewed and a decision will be made as to whether you are an approved home or not and you will be notified of this decision. |
| Requirements for fostering: 1. No GDROC Dane will be placed in a home which intends to house the Dane outside or currently houses a dog outside. 2. Foster homes must have a fenced in yard, invisible fences are not acceptable as the only means of containing a GDROC Dane. 3. Foster homes will be responsible for appropriately training each foster Dane. All foster Danes will be crate trained with the exception of those who are already reliable when left loose in the house. 4. Foster homes are responsible for transporting their foster Dane(s) to and from the vet and making themselves or the Dane available for meet and greets and adoption events. 5. Foster homes will provide food, toys, appropriate collars and leads (except when donations are available) and all the love and attention each GDROC Dane deserves. |
| What Can You FOSTER F.A.Q. Do For GDROC? *Transport Danes *Handle Danes at GDROC Events *Make phonecalls *Screen Applicants *Do homevisits for prospective adopters *Donate: -crates -toys -food -beds -flea preventative -heartguard -collars -leashes -bowls -feeders -money |
| *Why do we need foster homes? When GDROC was founded we set a standard that we would not take in Danes and place them in kennels. With this special breed, kenneling does more harm than good and we will not bring in a Dane if we do not have a foster home for it, strictly for the well being of the Dane. The more foster homes we have, the more Danes we can save. *How long will my foster stay? Our experience has been that fosters usually find their adoptive homes within 3-5 weeks of being placed in a foster home. *What if my foster does not work out? Because of unknown history on some of the Danes we take in, sometimes things don't work out. If this turned out the be the case you would not be stuck with the Dane. We will move the Dane to another foster within a few days of notification. * What if I want to adopt my foster Dane? The foster home always has first right to adopt their foster Dane. The adoption fee must be paid and an adoption contract signed. Often foster homes become what we call "foster failures" and end up falling in love with and adopting their foster Dane. This is not a bad thing! |
