Describe your rescue and placement rules. Makeform creates a dog foster application form covering housing, household fit, experience, schedule, transport, and preferences.
Route foster applications to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a foster scenario, adjust it, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Adults applying to foster dogs for a local rescue
Format
Multi-step application with conditional follow-ups
Prompt size
303 chars
Example form structure
Multi-step application with conditional follow-ups
Applicant, co-applicant, and address
Do you rent or own your home?
Current pets and dog-care experience
Typical schedule and time dog may be alone
References and program acknowledgment
Suggested routing tags
Home-check ready
Needs follow-up
Placement match
Ask applicants to describe a weekday, including how long the dog may be alone.
Step 1
Apply
household, experience, schedule, and preferences
Step 2
Review
staff checks fit, references, and open questions
Step 3
Meet
home check or conversation confirms the setup
Step 4
Match
an approved home receives a suitable dog
Screen for a workable placement
Structured questions show how a dog would live in the home before a coordinator calls references.
Branch into landlord permission, property rules, fencing, and safe separation space.
Collect ages, schedules, allergies, resident animals, and adult household consent.
Tag applicants by puppy, adult, recovery, large-dog, or behavior-support interest.
Designed for rescue realities
Conditional questions gather relevant detail from renters, pet owners, families, and specialized fosters.
Show landlord contact and pet-policy questions only when an applicant rents, avoiding irrelevant fields for homeowners.
Ask species, age, temperament, alteration status, vaccination status, and introduction plans when another animal lives in the home.
Compare supervision, transport, experience, placement length, and firm limits.
Send applications to the foster team and keep status tied to each submission.
Application workflow
Start with the rescue's real placement criteria, then turn each submission into a clear next step for the foster coordinator.
Name the dogs you place, service area, requirements, foster duties, and review steps.
Add housing rules, conditional renter and pet follow-ups, and required fields.
Send applications to the coordinator and route specialist placements appropriately.
Tag follow-up, references, home-check readiness, approval, pause, and placement matching.
Better than an inbox thread
An online form makes answers consistent, searchable, and easy to route.
Field guide
These six sections give reviewers enough context to plan a conversation and consider placement fit. Adapt every question to your rescue's policies and local process.
Applicant basics
Collect applicant, co-applicant, contact, address, age confirmation, and adults sharing foster duties.
Housing
Ask about dwelling type, ownership, property restrictions, outdoor areas, shared spaces, and the dog's sleeping location.
Household fit
Collect household ages, visitors, allergies, animals, adult consent, and the planned introduction process.
Experience
Ask for examples involving a past dog, difficult situation, or training routine, plus areas needing support.
Schedule and transport
Cover work, travel, time alone, exercise, clinic trips, supply pickup, meet-and-greets, and events.
Preferences and follow-up
Capture dog preferences and limits, references, follow-up consent, and program expectations without implying approval.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for rescues replacing email-based foster screening with a consistent online intake.
It is an intake prospective caregivers complete before temporary placements. It gathers contact, housing, household, pet, experience, schedule, transport, preference, and reference information for follow-up.
Include contact details, housing restrictions, household members, pets, dog-care experience, routine, time alone, transport, preferences, placement length, limits, references, and follow-up availability.
Show renters questions about landlord contact, pet permission, size restrictions, deposits, and shared-space rules. Homeowners can skip this conditional branch.
Yes. Show relevant follow-ups for puppies, seniors, recovery care, respite, large dogs, or behavior-support placements. The rescue still reviews fit.
Add file uploads for requested documents or images, place them in relevant branches, and explain why each item is collected.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. A paid plan is only for removing the Makeform badge.
No. It supplies information for review. Explain next steps such as a call, reference check, orientation, home visit, or meet-and-greet.
Route submissions to a shared inbox or sheet, then use consistent tags for follow-up, references, home-check readiness, approval status, and placement preferences.
Build a dependable foster pipeline.
