Yes! Rescue covers all vetting costs that are approved; provides quality food for its foster homes, and any supplies or medications that your foster will need while in your care. All you provide is love and some basic training for some of them.
We ask that our foster homes provide daily care and attention, which will give us an idea of what needs to be taught for the dog to be adoptable. Taking your foster to the groomer or vet may also be required. We also have meet and greet adoption events all over, and if you can attend them with your foster, it helps to get them adopted.
By opening your home to a foster dog or two, this allows the rescue to speak up for a dog in need of rescue. If it is a shelter dog, you save their life by being available and they don't have to wait. Sometimes an owner needs to surrender a loved pet (or a bonded pair) and knowing they would fit into your household dynamics until adopted keeps them out of the shelters. A foster home is clearly a life preserver for these dogs.
Yes, we see "foster failure" quite often, and No, you are not a failure. If your foster is currently available for adoption and there are no pending applications on him (her), you may apply to adopt them. We hope that by adopting, you will still have room in your home and heart to continue fostering.
We would be happy to chat with you to see if your location makes sense for us to add you as a foster home. We are stretching out more in adoption regions but we are finding that our satallite foster homes are scarce and it makes it a challenge in finding affordable vetting when we don't know the region. It also creates difficulty in getting dogs in remote locations from the midwest into homes that are also difficult to transport to. We can talk to you more to see if it is feasible.