Help Save Two Lives
Become a Foster for K9 Partners for Patriots
Open your home to a rescue dog and help prepare them for a life-changing partnership with a veteran. As a K9 Partners for Patriots foster, you provide the love, structure, and care a dog needs before being matched with a veteran in our service dog training program.
Your Home Can Be the First Step Toward Healing
Many of the dogs who enter our program come from shelters, rescues, or owners who believe they may have the temperament to become service dogs. Before they can be matched with a veteran, they need time in a safe, loving home where we can learn more about their personality, behavior, and potential.
Fosters help us give these dogs that chance.
By fostering, you are not simply caring for a dog. You are helping prepare a future service dog for a veteran battling PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual trauma.
One foster home can help change the future for both a rescue dog and a veteran.
Why Foster Homes Are So Important
You Give Rescue Dogs a Safe Place to Land
Foster homes help dogs transition from uncertainty into stability, love, and structure.
You Help Us Make Better Matches
Your feedback helps our team understand a dog’s temperament, habits, strengths, and needs before they are matched with a veteran.
You Help Reduce Wait Times
Because we do not kennel dogs at our facility, fosters make it possible for more dogs to move through the evaluation and matching process.
You Support a Veterans Healing Journey
The dog you foster may go on to become a life-changing partner for a veteran learning to reclaim confidence, connection, and independence.
How Fostering Works
Step 01.
Apply to Foster
Complete our foster application so we can learn more about your home, experience, and availability.
Step 02.
Complete the Approval Process
Approved fosters complete orientation and a home safety inspection to help ensure a safe, stable environment.
Step 03.
Welcome a Dog Into Your Home
You provide love, structure, socialization, and basic care while the dog is being evaluated for the program.
Step 04.
Stay Connected with Our Team
You bring the dog to the K9P4P training campus once a week for socialization and evaluation.
Step 05.
Help Prepare a Future Service Dog
Your care and feedback help determine whether the dog may be a good match for one of our program veterans.
We Provide the Essentials
K9 Partners for Patriots works to make fostering as smooth and supported as possible. We provide the basic essentials needed to care for the dog during the foster period.
We provide:
- Food
- Veterinary care
- Crate
- Leash and collar
- Basic supplies
- Orientation and ongoing support
- Guidance from the K9P4P team
Your role is to provide the love, patience, time, and stable home environment that helps the dog prepare for the next step.
Foster Requirements
To foster for K9 Partners for Patriots, applicants must be able to meet the following requirements:
- Be 21 years of age or older
- Complete the K9P4P Foster Application
- Complete a home safety inspection
- Have previous experience owning or caring for dogs
- Allow the dog to live indoors as part of the household
- Provide a safe, loving, and stable environment
- Include the dog in appropriate family activities
- Spend time walking, playing, cuddling, and bonding with the dog
- Work on house training if needed
- Crate train the dog using the crate provided
- Bring the dog to the K9P4P training campus once a week for socialization
- Be patient while both you and the dog adjust
Breed Eligibility Note
K9 Partners for Patriots does not discriminate against any breed. However, pit bulls, pit bull mixes, and bully breeds are not considered for adoption, donation, or fostering through our program.
Submit Application
Please submit your application below and our Foster Care Coordinator will be in touch with you shortly. Thank you for your time and generosity!
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