• Foster Application/Agreement

  • Please note, the Foster Program is not intended for fostering-to-adopt. Thank you for taking the time to fill out this application. Please answer the questions in this application with your ultimate goal in mind: fostering a rescued retriever dog. Required answers are marked with an asterisk (*). One of our representatives will be contacting you shortly after we receive your application.

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  • FOSTER APPLICATION/AGREEMENT

    Please note, the Foster Program is not intended for fostering-to-adopt. Thank you for taking the time to fill out this application. Please answer the questions in this application with your ultimate goal in mind: fostering a rescued Golden. Required answers are marked with an asterisk (*). If a question does not apply to you, please write N/A in the response area. Please fill out this form completely and clearly. Please include area codes with all phone numbers, and please include your E‑mail address, if at all possible. One of our representatives will be contacting you shortly after we receive your application.

    Mail your completed Foster Home Application to:

    Fostering Application
    Golden Bond Rescue
    PO Box 25391
    Portland, OR 97298

    NOTE: Postage is a minimum $1.30 to $1.50 to mail this application. Please be sure you have the correct postage. The Post Office will return envelopes requiring additional postage, holding up your application. We do not accept applications sent by email or FAX.

  • Golden Bond Rescue cares deeply for the dogs they bring into their care. In many cases, these dogs have experienced very difficult lives up to this point, perhaps even enduring neglect and/or abuse. Once they are in our care, we want our dogs to be well-cared for and kept safe. Golden Bond Rescue does not make its dogs available for adoption until they have received all of their vaccinations, have been neutered or spayed, and have certain medical treatments completed. There will likely be times when the fosters will be required to take their foster dogs to a Golden Bond-approved veterinarian. Fostering is very rewarding but it will require a level of commitment from you.

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  • BASIC CONTACT INFORMATION


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  • ABOUT YOUR HOUSEHOLD

  • We require in-home visits with all residents of the household present before we can place a foster in your care.

  • Please list all children under 18 that live in your household or visit on a regular basis:

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  • Please list all pets that you currently have in your house or on your property, or who regularly visit your home:

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  • Foster dogs are not allowed on furniture as that should be a decision left up to the adopters.

  • ABOUT YOUR HOME

  • You must provide written approval/permission from your landlord before your application will be processed. You may attach a document file below or mail your landlord approval letter to:

    Fostering Application
    Golden Bond Rescue
    PO Box 25391
    Portland OR 97298

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  • Foster dogs are not allowed to run free in an unfenced area or taken to dog parks.


  • YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH PETS

  • Please describe your level of experience with retriever dogs and provide an honest assessment of your abilities to recognize and deal with problem behaviors that a foster might exhibit (e.g. barking, growling, food/toy possessiveness, chewing, digging, jumping, pulling on leash, lack of house-training, etc.)

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  • Your Veterinarian

    Many of our rescue dogs come to us not fully vaccinated. While at your home, your foster dog may need to visit a GBR vet once or twice for booster shots. To ensure these dogs are not exposed to diseases before they are fully vaccinated, we would like to ensure your resident dog(s) (if any) are current on their vaccinations: distemper, hepatitis, parvo & parainfluenza (aka DHPP), bordetella (aka kennel cough) and rabies (Leptospirosis vaccination is given to all foster dogs but is not a requirement for resident dogs. Canine influenza vaccination is strongly recommended.). Please provide the name and contact information of your veterinarian as well as the name of your dog(s). If you have no resident dog(s), please disregard this section.

  • Note: Your preferred vet is the one who has seen your dog(s) and provided them with their most current vaccinations. Golden Bond Rescue will call your veterinarian’s office to ensure that your dog(s) is/are current on the vaccinations mentioned above – we do not inquire about billing records or other personal information.

  • Note: If the records for your pet(s) are under a different name (e.g., maiden name or name from a previous marriage) from that on this application, please give that name here. Similarly, if there are two different surnames given for the applicants on this application, please indicate the one under whose name the records will be found:

  • CARING FOR YOUR FOSTER DOG

  • Note: GBR foster dogs are not allowed to go to dog parks

  • MATCHING YOU WITH A FOSTER DOG

  • Would you be willing to foster:

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  • Please indicate your experience (YES/NO) and willingness to foster (YES/NO/MAYBE) a dog with the following behavior or medical issues.

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  • FOSTER HOME AGREEMENT

    I/We, the undersigned, in consideration for receiving temporary custody and providing temporary foster care for any dog provided to me/us by Golden Bond Rescue, an Oregon nonprofit corporation, hereby promise and agree as follows:

    1.  To seek permission/guidance for all veterinary care (other than life-and-death emergency situations) with the Intake Manager before any medical treatment is administered by a veterinarian.

    2.  To alert the Golden Bond Rescue Adoption Director to all aspects of the dog’s personality, activity level, general health, etc. This information provides the Adoption Team the information necessary to match the dog with the right adoptive home.

    3.  Upon reasonable notice, to make the dog available to potential adopters and to answer all questions about the dog’s behavior and health, honestly, to the best of my/our knowledge.

    4.  In the event I/we should desire to adopt any dog placed in our temporary foster care and custody, we further promise and agree as follows:

    a.  To immediately contact the Intake Manager and Adoption Director and inform them of this request, ideally within the first three (3) weeks of the foster dog’s stay, but always before any other potential adopters are referred to, and actually see, the foster dog.

    b.  To complete an adoption contract and pay to Golden Bond Rescue an adoption fee equal to the current “donation” adoption fee usually paid by the general public. Such an executed contract and fee will be delivered/paid within three (3) business days of actual verbal adoption approval by Golden Bond Rescue.

    c.  To acknowledge that such an adoption is “AS IS,” with no warranties expressed or implied, regarding the physical or mental condition of the subject dog.

    5.  Finally, if I/we breach/break any terms of this agreement, or are directed by Golden Bond Rescue, to return the subject to it, even if we have not breached or broken this agreement, I/we agree to immediately release/return the subject dog to Golden Bond Rescue, upon demand.

    Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, I/we further agree and understand that legal ownership/title to the subject dog remains with Golden Bond Rescue and not with me/us.

    Should it be necessary, I/we hereby allow any authorized agent of Golden Bond Rescue to reclaim the subject dog from me/us without further notice. Entry upon my/our premises to reclaim the subject dog for cause is expressly authorized and shall not be considered legal trespass.

    Should litigation be required to enforce the physical return of the subject dog, I/we also agree to pay any legal costs and reasonable attorney fees, including those of any appeal, pursuant to ORS 20.096.

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  • LIABILITY WAIVER

    I/we represent that I/we have experience caring for and interacting with dogs to the extent represented in the attached Foster Home or Volunteer Application. I/we further understand some dogs entering Golden Bond Rescue may have unknown or abusive backgrounds. Surrendering owners or even shelters may also lie to Golden Bond Rescue about their own dog’s traits or temperament. I/we therefore understand Golden Bond Rescue can make no representations to us about the traits or temperament of a Golden Bond Rescue dog with which we interact or foster. As such, I/we hereby hold Golden Bond Rescue, as well as its volunteers, directors and officers harmless for any personal injury or property damage any Golden Bond Rescue dog may cause with which we interact or foster. This includes us, and our family members and other family companion animals. I/we also agree to fully indemnify Golden Bond Rescue for any third-party liability for any Golden Bond Rescue dog while in my/our care, control and custody.

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