Why become a foster home?

Good foster homes make an incredible difference in rescue. They provide a warm, safe and loving environment – many times for the first time in a rescue cocker’s life. They show a rescue cocker that people can be kind and food and water are plentiful. A foster family teaches a rescue cocker the ropes of living as a household family member. They evaluate a rescue cocker as to how they get along with other dogs, cats, kids and every day living. They work with other CSRA volunteers to find the best home possible for a rescue cocker and send them on their way to their new life.

Without foster families to do all of this for our rescue cockers, our success rate at placing them in forever homes would not be as high. Sure, fostering involves a time commitment and a piece of our heart goes with each rescue cocker placed, but it is one of the most important and rewarding parts of rescue you can do. The phone calls and e-mails from the adoptive home sharing new first experiences and photos of happy faces make it all worthwhile.