 Fostering is one of the noblest things
a pug person can do. People who foster rescue pugs are the backbone of pug
rescue organizations; without them, we could not take in pugs that need
homes.
Many people think they could not
take in a pug without wanting to keep him or her. While it is true that we
indeed love our rescue pugs while they are in our care, there is tremendous
satisfaction in seeing them placed with wonderful, excited pug-parent(s)
who take them to their new, forever home where they are the star of the show.
It is also fun to get to meet and play with so many little pug "people" while
they are our visitors.
Sometimes foster parents do adopt
a rescue pug. Because there are many different pug personalities in this
breed, trying out a pug on the family while fostering gives everyone a chance
to see if this is truly the pug they want for the rest of its life. For this
reason, people who would like to foster a pug need to fill out our foster
application and be an approved home to begin the process. Being an approved
home never obligates the foster pug-parents to adopt a pug in their care,
it only gives them the option should they choose to. In actuality, we
enc ourage
our foster volunteers NOT to adopt, so that we will always have foster homes
available when new pugs come in (but it doesn't always work out that
way!).
If you can take in a rescue pug
and provide a safe, loving environment, we will provide the food and cover
the medical costs while s/he is in your care.
Please
click here to print out our Foster Application. (You will need Adobe
Acrobat on your computer.) If you cannot bring up the application, please
just drop us an email requesting it and we'll mail one out to you ASAP!
Click
here for other ways you can help if fostering is not for you.
Pug Rescue of Santa Barbara
1809 Mira Vista
Santa Barbara, CA 93103 |