Fostering

Foster Home Application
If you are interested in becoming a foster home for 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue, please...

• Fill out a Foster Home Application on our website
• Wait for a 4P4L representative to contact you about arranging a home visit
• Once you are approved, let us know what kind of dogs you would like to foster (puppies, seniors, big dogs, little dogs, male, female, etc.)

Our Foster Care Contract
As a foster care provider for 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue, you are agreeing to the following conditions:

1. To accept and consider the animal as a household companion, not as an outside pet.
2. To provide humane care and treatment including proper food, clean water, shelter, and exercise, as well as reasonable amounts of time to adjust to new surroundings
3. To immediately notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue in the event of the foster animal's illness or death.
4. To provide emergency medical/veterinary care UPON ARRIVAL by 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue and to use veterinarians approved by 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue.
5. To safeguard the animal from loss or mishap
1. Not allowing the animal(s) to run at-large, unsupervised
2. Not expose the animal to know dangerous conditions such as aggressive animals
6. To immediately notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue and local animal control if the animal is missing
7. To NOT give or sell the animal to another person, including relatives, rescue groups, a humane association, shelter, or pound, or medical/experimental laboratory or similar organization.
8. To NOT allow an experimental laboratory or similar organization access to the animals
9. To NOT permanently alter the animal's appearance in any way (e.g., cropping, docking, etc.)
10. To NOT allow the animal if unaltered, to have access to other animals of the opposite sex that are also unaltered.
11. To allow 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue to make periodic visits as sanctioned by the Colorado Department of Agriculture as often as deemed necessary.
12. To immediately notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue of any changes in address or contact information.
13. To immediately notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue of any plans to move out of the state of Colorado during the foster care period.
14. To immediately notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue of any changes in circumstances that may affect my ability to adequately provide for the animals.
15. To return the animal(s) at the request of 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue at any time, for any reason; and I understand that adoptive families are approved or declined by 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue only.
16. To agree to keep all 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue identification tags on the foster animals for the entire foster period.
17. To agree to attend a MINIMUM of 2 Adoption Events per Month with the foster animal(s) and try to attend as many as possibly until the foster animal(s) are adopted.
18. Should you decide to permanently adopt the animal, to notify 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue, upon approval, follow the established adoption procedures.
19. To understand that the animal has been/will be spayed/neutered and vaccinated by a licensed veterinarian and that the animal's health is accurately represented to the best knowledge of 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue; however, no representations are made as to the temperament or mental disposition of the animal.
20. To agree to foster the animal at my own risk and to be solely responsible for any damages to people or property caused by the animal(s). 
21. To further promise and agree to indemnify and release 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue and its officers and directors of any liability arising from any known, unknown, or unanticipated damages to people or property caused by the animal(s).
22. To be fully aware of, understand, and agree to all the terms and conditions of this release and indemnification provision and that it is binding and enforceable by law