Is fostering a puppy a good idea?
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From a foster 'parent' prospective, you must be able to love and care for the dog as your own, teach it the proper way to act, live with people, socialize it, etc. and then be able to let it go when it finds a permanent home or moves on to the next phase of it's training if it is to be a service dog.
From a dogs perspective, it is better to have a dog in a home rather than in a kennel or a shelter. In a home environment, the dog can learn the proper etiquette for living in a home, it learns how to socialize with people (and other dogs or animals if there are any in the home), manners, house training, etc... The hard part for the dog is when it is separated from the only family it has known to go to another family however most dogs do adjust fairly easily to a new home environment. I say 'most' because not all of them do; there is the very rare occasion when a dog does not adjust and in the cases that I have known that to happen (probably 2 in all the years that I have been involved), the foster parents have happily taken the dog back as their permanent pet.
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