Have you ever heard the saying: “Give a man one fish and he eats for a day? But teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for life?” Believe it or not, the same theory applies to fostering a dog. If you adopt one dog you are giving that one dog a forever home. BUT … if you can foster a dog, you open the door to saving many lives that otherwise may have ended needlessly.
Beagle Rescue League, Inc, based in Bucks County, PA, and serving Eastern PA and NJ does not have a facility. That means that we cannot bring in any dogs unless we have foster homes for them to go to!
Beagles in our program come to us with a variety of backgrounds: some arrive from high kill shelters in the southern U.S, while others are released to us via collaborative efforts with biomedical research facilities where dogs are retiring from their “jobs” in the medical community. The amount of care and training each dog needs can vary dramatically. Most shelter dogs have some type of experience living in a home, and may have some basic “skills” with an idea about housetraining and/or a few commands. Laboratory research dogs require more in-depth care since they are learning about everything involved with living in a home, such as going up and down stairs, going to the bathroom outside, walking on a leash, and even riding in a car! Research beagles are therefore fostered by experienced foster homes.
Here are some general points about fostering which can help you decide it it may be right for you!
Foster families must submit an application, agree to a veterinary reference, interview and home visit. Upon approval, the foster families’ contact information will be provided to the PA Dept of Agriculture as part of BRL’s kennel license requirements.
Beagle Rescue League provides you with initial supplies including a crate, dog bowls, collar, harness, leash, toys, treats and food. Foster beagles are fed Fromm Adult Gold, and we reimburse our foster homes for this expense.
Beagle Rescue League pays for all veterinary care for our dogs. (Vet care must be provided by specific practices that work with BRL.)
In general, foster families are not allowed to adopt their first foster dog, but may adopt subsequent foster dogs.
The length of time a dog is in foster care varies from weeks to months. We ask that foster families commit to fostering until the dog is adopted, regardless of how long that may be.
What would be required of a foster home?
We can only utilize foster homes in the following counties: in NJ – Morris/Union/Somerset/Hunterdon/Middlesex/Mercer or PA – Bucks & Montgomery. We cannot consider foster homes outside of PA and NJ.
Any current animals in the home must be licensed, have a history of routine veterinary care, be up to date on vaccinations, and be spayed/neutered.
You need to be willing to crate train and housetrain a foster dog since we do not know the housetraining status of our shelter intakes, and our research intakes always need to be housetrained.
You need to be able to easily get your foster dog to one of our veterinarians, located in Monmouth Junction, NJ or Langhorne, PA. This is one of the most important factors in accepting foster applications.
You need to live within PA or NJ and no more than roughly one hour of Yardley, PA.
You need to try to attend one adoption event per month to showcase the foster dog in your care (currently we are partnered with Petco/Petsmart/PetValu). We try to have events in both NJ and PA, and you are notified of these events.
Fostering is rewarding, fun and it literally can save the life of a dog!
Since our intake had to cease due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not currently able to consider new foster applications. Our application has been removed from this site. We appreciate your interest and hope you can find another local organization to help.
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“Because Every Super Dog Needs A Hero….”
Have you ever heard the saying: “Give a man one fish and he eats for a day? But teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for life?” Believe it or not, the same theory applies to fostering a dog. If you adopt one dog you are giving that one dog a forever home. BUT … if you can foster a dog, you open the door to saving many lives that otherwise may have ended needlessly.
Beagle Rescue League, Inc, based in Bucks County, PA, and serving Eastern PA and NJ does not have a facility. That means that we cannot bring in any dogs unless we have foster homes for them to go to!
Beagles in our program come to us with a variety of backgrounds: some arrive from high kill shelters in the southern U.S, while others are released to us via collaborative efforts with biomedical research facilities where dogs are retiring from their “jobs” in the medical community. The amount of care and training each dog needs can vary dramatically. Most shelter dogs have some type of experience living in a home, and may have some basic “skills” with an idea about housetraining and/or a few commands. Laboratory research dogs require more in-depth care since they are learning about everything involved with living in a home, such as going up and down stairs, going to the bathroom outside, walking on a leash, and even riding in a car! Research beagles are therefore fostered by experienced foster homes.
Here are some general points about fostering which can help you decide it it may be right for you!
What would be required of a foster home?
Fostering is rewarding, fun and it literally can save the life of a dog!
Since our intake had to cease due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not currently able to consider new foster applications. Our application has been removed from this site. We appreciate your interest and hope you can find another local organization to help.