Foster Home System                                     

BAR utilizes a foster home system to prepare our dogs for their new adoptive homes. Boxers coming into rescue will spend at least 2 weeks
in a foster home being evaluated, during which time they will be being brought up-to-date on vaccinations and be spayed or neutered. All dogs
will be evaluated by experienced boxer owners in a family setting. Whenever possible, this will include introductions and interactions with children
and family pets. Dogs identified with special issues will be professionally evaluated to insure appropriate placements.

Here is a very good article that will give a real insight as to what it is like to foster a Boxer. 

Provide a Foster Home for a Boxer  written by Simone Jennings.

If you think you think you have experience with Boxers and might like to provide a foster home for a boxer in need, please go to our
Foster Home Application and fill it out.  One of present foster home mentors will then call you directly to conduct a phone interview and to explain
what fostering is really like.  They will also check your three personal reference and your veterinary reference and submit an interview report to the
Directors. 
If, upon evaluation of your interview report, the Directors feel that you are a viable candidate to foster, we will send your information to
our Home Visit Coordinator who will advertise for an experienced volunteer to conduct a home visit.   This volunteer will come to your home and
check the entire premises to ensure a safe and loving environment for a foster dog.  Our volunteer will also bring one of their own Boxers to the
home visit and will bring it into the home after conducting the actual visit if the home has no other dogs to see how the family member react to the
Boxer.  If there are other dogs in the home the volunteer and the applicant will take the dogs for a walk keeping them at a safe distance and slowly
move them closer together.  Upon returning from the walk, the dogs will be introduced on leashes in the yard which is done to evaluate the behavior
of any other dogs in the home and to see how they will react with another dog.  The home visit volunteer will submit a report to the directors.
The Directors will then evaluate the interview report, references and the home visit and make a determination as to whether the home will be approved
to foster.

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