"FOREVER FOSTERS NEEDED!!!" "OLD DOG HAVEN" Rescue

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about Old Dog Haven   Western Washington, Spokane and Portland, OR only

 

"Can you provide a home for a senior dog? Old Dog Haven places unadoptable dogs with families like yours across Western Washington state.

When you take a dog into your home we pay the medical costs-you provide the food and love.

We need Final Refuge Homes where the dog can stay for the rest of it's life, which can be weeks, months or years.

We always have a waiting list and for many dogs, Old Dog Haven is their only chance for a home or continued life.

It's a commitment but it's paid back in joy. Interested?" Contact us! https://olddoghaven.org/how-to-help/fostering/

 

Happy Final Refuge Friday!

Friends, WE NEED MORE FOREVER FOSTERS!!

This is going to be a long post but we sure hope you'll read it and share it

Final Refuge is another way of saying "forever foster" or permanent foster home.

 

Old Dog Haven's mission is to take senior dogs who have been deemed "unadoptable" and give them permanent homes. When we are asked for help we pull senior dogs from our local shelters. Shelter seniors are a priority for us, but we also take senior dogs directly from owners when we gather information that leads us to determine we cannot or should not courtesy post them for their owners. Most rescues are not able to provide permanent homes for the senior dogs they take in once they find that those dogs are not going to be adopted. When we are asked and can find a home for those dogs, we bring them into our care as well.

Some ask why they can't just adopt a dog we post as needing an Old Dog Haven home. If a shelter has determined it will not be making a dog available for adoption, that is their call to make and we respect that. The reasons these dogs are not made available for adoption can be advanced age, complicated medical issues, or they are an emotionally fragile old dog that should not be put through adoption (risking another rehoming).

Often we are asked why we cannot extend our reach beyond parts of W. Washington and Portland, OR. Friends, let us tell you that we would LOVE to extend our reach! However, that would not be responsible rescue. We hover at about 300 dogs in permanent care. To give those dogs the best we can, we know we can't send them to homes we have not carefully screened. We work with many vet clinics, specialists and specialty clinics. This doesn't mean we have "deals" with

these businesses. Yes, some may offer us a rescue discount that we greatly appreciate. However, the bottom line is we want to work with the veterinary clinics we know have the knowledge and equipment our seniors need. You see the dogs we take into our care- so many need a lot of care. Many of our dogs have emergencies when the vet they regularly see is closed or in the middle of the night. We need to be sure that wherever each dog lands, there is an E.R. hospital close by.

We match dogs we take into our care with fosters whose lifestyles match the dog's needs. Most seniors need more potty breaks, they don't manage long hours alone, they need to see a vet more often than younger dogs do. We understand that means there are those who won't be able to foster for us and we know sometimes it causes hard feelings. That is unfortunate but we hope that everyone can understand we do not want to "fail" these dogs. Please remember that most of the dogs we take into our care have already endured so much loss. We want to give every single one of these old dogs the very best homes we can offer them. We believe so many of you feel the same way-you love old dogs and you want to help them!

Today we are sharing Sancho again as he is still in need of your shares.

A shelter foster brought him home from the shelter but that is not a permanent placement. We would like to find a forever foster home for Sancho. He certainly received a lot of attention from his initial post but that didn't equate to finding him a home! We hope you'll join us again in sharing this unique little fellow.