Fosters Needed!
Camp Cocker Rescue is looking to welcome new foster home volunteers
Have you ever thought about being of service?
Do you love dogs?
Are you patient and not easily frustrated with things like potty training or leash walk training?
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Yes? Then we want YOU to join the Camp Cocker team of foster home volunteers!
Camp Cocker Rescue is located in the Los Angeles region. It is generally easier if foster homes live within a reasonable driving distance from the regular veterinarians that we use, but we do have some foster homes in other areas of California where we have established veterinarian relationships (San Luis Obispo county, Sacramento county, Orange county, Ventura county).
Becoming an ongoing foster home volunteer means you will not be adopting the dog you are fostering and you must be prepared to allow the dog to get adopted when an appropriate forever home is found. We ask foster parent volunteers to commit to fostering the dog for as long as it takes to get adopted. This stability is best for the dog rather than moving the dog around from place to place to place.
Some dogs can get adopted more quickly than we were expecting while other dogs can take much longer to get adopted than we were expecting. There is no average length of time that a foster home volunteer can expect to make this fostering commitment, so please be open minded and prepared to foster the dog for as long as it takes.
We do rescue many middle aged and older dogs that take quite a bit longer to get adopted and we are not a high volume rescue group that moves dogs quickly to anyone that wants to adopt. We are very thoughtful and careful about who we adopt our dogs out to. The incredible value of a foster home volunteer is the new information you will be sharing about your foster dog, to help us to better match up that dog to the right forever home.
Many foster dogs have potty accidents and need to be house trained by the foster home volunteers. We can support you with diapers and belly bands but ultimately, you need to be realistic that potty accidents are going to happen and to not get angry at the dog.
These dogs have already been through so much stress before getting rescued, a foster home needs to be a peaceful and gentle place for them to decompress. Foster parents should have a positive attitude and be patient with each dog's learning curve.
If you are ready to be totally and completely inconvenienced by fostering, because let's face it, it's hard work . . . then check out how to sign up here:
Please be open minded to which dog we match you up with for fostering as we want to select a dog based on who has the most need to get into a foster home first and we also select the dog based on your specific environment and set of dog skills.
Thank you so much for considering joining the volunteer team and helping to be a part of the rescue journey of a Camp Cocker doggie!