Vacation Relief/Weekend Foster Volunteer

Here's your change to meet a service dog pup in training, assist with their socialization. Your home, and its members, will be new to the pup, as will your neighborhood. Take one of our pups either when their raiser needs relief or in our once a month weekend foster program.

Your role is to keep the pup safe, happy, and healthy, and to follow our protocols we use in training our pups (sleep in their crates at night, or when unsupervised), no furniture, loose leash walking, good house manners, etc. We have a hand out we'll provide you, and if you're new to the program, ask you to take an hour and a half class before you take a pup home. We don't expect you to train the pup, or take it on public outings to socialize it.

You'll be provided with all you need - crate, leash, harness, food, toys, bed (if dog is ready for that), long leash, etc. You provide the love and care of the pup.

If you're a vacation relief volunteer, the raiser usually drops the pup and supplies off to you, and picks it up.

If you're a weekend foster, you'll pick the pup up at our center in Brewster on Friday and return to our center in Brewster on Monday.