Become a Foster!

Please ensure all resident pets are up-to-date on rabies and distemper vaccines, kept on monthly preventatives, have yearly exams, and are spayed or neutered before bringing a foster dog into your home.

We kindly ask that you review and follow our decompression protocols. These are always linked in your contract emails and are available anytime on our website.

We love seeing how your foster is doing! Please plan to share photos at least three times per week—though we certainly won’t mind daily updates.
Helpful photo ideas include:

• A clear, straight-on portrait
• Interactions with other animals
• Interactions with kids

Please avoid photos where the dog is upside down or looking up at the camera from between your feet, as these angles don’t show potential adopters their best features.

During your foster’s stay, please help them build basic life skills such as:

• Crate training
• Leash walking
• Sit/stay/come
• Potty training (if needed)
• Learning whether they do better on a harness or collar
• Redirection for inappropriate chewing
• Support for mild separation anxiety, if present

Your patience and guidance make a world of difference. Thank you for helping our dogs feel safe, loved, and ready for their forever homes!

- likes/dislikes, how they interact with other animals, whether they are exposed to cats or other dogs, or even other animals like farm animals. 

- Do they like to go for rides? 

- Do they exhibit any signs of separation anxiety?  Are they good with toys?  Do they chew on things they are not supposed to?

Please make sure that you set your posts to public, and tag the rescue in every one of them!  

Please join other Facebook groups besides the Pulled From the Pits page such as Adoptable Pets of Maine, or any other FB group that might help in networking to find our pet their forever home.  

Don’t forget to mention to go to the website www.apitbullrescue.com to see more information about the animal and to apply for adoption.  If you are not sure how to post to these places, please send pictures and information to us through messenger or email.  

Once your animal is adopted, and you have been directed to release the animal to their new family please try to get a few good pictures of them before they go home, we love to see happy endings!!

The goal is to get these dogs to their new homes as fast as possible.  We want to limit their time in foster care, not because we don’t have great foster families, but because it is a much easier transition on these animals if they aren’t being bounced around too much.  

Under NO circumstances are the animals in your care to be released to anyone without authorization from the rescue.

If you are contacted by anyone (other than your direct friends and family) asking questions about the animal you are fostering, please direct them to contact the rescue.  If they continue to try to contact you please notify us immediately.

The foster family’s job is SO important to making the lives of these dogs the best that it can be.  Thank you for helping us.  Without all of you, we couldn’t save all of them!