Why Boise Foster Dog?

We are a family that loves and cares about animals. Terhi,my wife, volunteers at the Idaho Humane Society, which can be a heart-breaking labor of love. We've already taken in three shelter cats and one dog who needed a family who could give her more love. Our little house is running out of room.

Yet, we'd like to do more. The best option seems to be to take in a dog as a foster family. Foster families keep the animal at their home where they can give it a normal life it just can't get at the shelter. The animals that get put into foster homes are usually overlooked through no fault of their own and just need a little longer to find someone to settle down with.

So we've volunteered ourselves as a foster family for dogs. One of the things that foster families are encouraged to do is to find the animal a home. To do that we need to advertise. The best way we can think of to do that is to create a place where prospective adopters can get to know the dog before they take it home. That increases the chance of a successful match considerably.

So we hope that people from across the Treasure Valley and beyond will come here to meet our foster dogs. We hope this blog will raise awareness of the thousands of wonderful animals that through no fault of their own end up at the shelter. We hope we can encourage even a few more to adopt from the shelter instead of buying puppies and kitties from a pet shop. We hope we can encourage those who already own pets to have them spayed or neutered so that they don't contribute to the growing population of unwanted animals that have to be euthanized each year.

We especially hope we can help match up the animals we foster with someone who will love them as much or more than we do. Animals have a lot of love to give. One of them may be just right for you.

Welcome, and come back often.