Fostering

MABTR cannot operate without foster homes. The fewer foster homes available, the fewer dogs we can save.

Foster Homes needed in the surrounding areas of: Omaha, NE, Kansas City, MO/KS, Des Moines, IA, and Denver, CO.

What is a Foster Home?

A Foster Home is a home where a rescued, unwanted or otherwise needy Boston terrier can live and be loved until a permanent home is available that meets its special needs.

Foster homes are not for persons just wanting to adopt a Boston terrier. They are for persons willing to open their hearts to help the Boston terrier along its way, understanding that he/she will eventually be going to a “forever home”.

A BIG THANK YOU to all our foster homes. Without you our mission could not be achieved.

Responsibilities of a Foster Home

1. Fostering a rescue dog is a huge responsibility, and one that must be accepted by your entire family.

 

2. Provide for the fostered Boston terrier's needs of food, shelter, treats, toys, and love.  This care would be in a home situation, not a kennel.   

 

3. To provide a fenced in yard for the fostered Boston terrier to play and exercise in safety.

 

4. To make veterinary appointments for shots, altering and other medical needs identified plus provide transportation to these appointment(s).  The Rescue Group pays for all veterinarian and medication costs, but not for gas or time.

 

5. To give medication when needed which would include heartworm preventative pills and other medications, both orally and injection, as required for good health.

 

6. To keep the fostered Boston terrier groomed.  Grooming requirements include bathing, brushing the coat, cleaning the ears, trimming the nails, cleaning nose flaps and face wrinkles.  The foster parents, if knowledgeable, can do this grooming, otherwise a Rescue Agent will schedule time to visit.

 

7. To report progress, special personality traits, behavior, and any “issues” that need to be addressed and passed onto the new family.  Provide personal recommendations for placement to the Rescue Committee. 

 

8. To keep accurate financial records concerning expenditures made on the fostered Boston terrier.   

 

9. Items provided to the foster home by Rescue include: a harness, a leash, dog shampoo, and crate.  NOT provided by Rescue and are required by the foster home are: food, food/water bowls, treats, toys, and bedding material.

 

10. Please remember there are as many exceptions as there are rules. So unusual situations should be discussed with the Rescue Committee.

 

11. As a foster home you are able to adopt your foster dog.  Adoption fees for foster homes are ˝ the original fee.

 

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Interested in Fostering?

The first step is completing our foster application.  Once received you will receive a phone call from a MABTR rescue agent to complete a phone interview and schedule a home visit.  Please email or call us for a foster application.

 

Questions call or email:
Rescue Agent: Jennifer Misfeldt, 402-510-1346, Jennifer's email
Foster Parent: Brenda Mickeliunas, 402- 933-8739, Brenda's email
 

Our paths will cross for only a short time, but while you are in my care I will be devoted to you. If memories of your former life are painful, I will help erase them. No longer will you hunger and I will help to heal your wounds. If your former life was good, I will promise you an even better future.

One day our time together will come to an end and you will go off to your new home, healthy, happy and healed. As a parting gift, I will give you a piece of my heart to remember me by. I may shed a tear . . .not for my loss, but for your gain.

Perhaps our paths may cross again for a fleeting instant and I will be comforted by the aura of love that surrounds you. There will always be a bond between us, though we walk separate paths through this life.

After we reach our heavenly reward our paths may cross again. You may try to return the piece of my heart with thanks for all that I did for you. I will tell you to keep it and thank you for showing me that I could be better than I thought I could be, and that I learned in giving came the greatest gifts.


The pieces of our hearts are like grains of sand. They are pulled along a current beyond our control until they come together and form a safe haven.

I, like you, came to understand what it meant to be saved.       

- by Jim Willis, Author

 

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