Join the conversation, comment on here or on reddit, https://redd.it/61hf16 . Having the world interact with this idea is 75% of our idea. The Dog Farm Community will have direct input into the who/what/how that goes on at The Dog Farm. To make a change, we must be the change. We want transparency. Healthy & balanced dogs finding Furever homes with people who understand how to be the best life partner for these animals.

In our last post I talked about my two ideas, Dog Respite Care and a Large Foster Center. We have decided to focus for now on the Foster center idea, but not in that format just yet, more of a foster house. We are looking into the idea of a Small Dog Foster House.

Don’t forget we have experience in many fields of work and we feel, we have a good idea on how to make things better for the animals.

Lets use this image below to give us a basic idea for what we are thinking about. The size of the house below is not what we have in mind, it would be amazing to be able to have that but its not a realistic thought at this point

(We are only thinking of the Foster House part of the idea at the moment, not the play yard area)

A living area above and a dog area below. (Technically the whole house is dog area).

Living area- Normal house, nothing special about it, dogs have access to it. Our Founder/Dog Behaviorist & Trainer would live here with his wife. He would be spending every day with these dogs, training them and helping them have the best possibilities of finding their Furever homes. ATM he is the only Employee and would be doing all the work.

(Depending on size of house, a Staff Member, Volunteer, Guest Trainer or Guest Speaker could stay in extra bedroom(s) if they needed).

Dog area- Special flooring and walls for ease of cleaning, every surface in the dog area must be able to be cleaned. We have worked with the correct products to do the cleaning (not sure if this is needed but we know its in kennels, a air filtration unit that uses a special type of light that kills things in the air?)

Large enough areas, dog play area, teaching area/assessment area, if there was a dog that had something going on with them that they needed to be separate, timid, too aggressive or excited (nothing crazy, but you need to be able to help all dogs not just the cute ones, this is why we would only work with/foster a small group of dogs) We want to be able to help all the dogs, but you have to give each INDIVIDUAL dog what they need to succeed, if a old soul dog doesn’t like how fast the other dogs move or how excited the other dogs are, they shouldn’t have to be stuck in an area where that anxiety is (we would help the dog get over that behavior) Kind of like the image below, Very rough and quick mock up.

What makes The Dog Farm special, is that we will have KickStarter and Patreon help. We would use Kickstarter for projects, example – ” We need a new fence ” or “We need a radiator for the Paw Mobile or Lets get a Paw Mobile”. With Patreon we would use it as our main Donation platform. If you believe in us and our quest this is where you would donate a monthly amount to help the overall cause. (We like and believe in this idea/cause and we want you to do this, here is an amount of money per month so your able to focus your time on it)

For example. We need to have enough money each month to cover basic costs.

1)- A normal living wage for our trainer so that this is all that they do, their sole focus is The Dog Farm. To make The Dog Farm successful at helping these animals you need to spend the time, how are you able to spend the time? If your given the time.

With this focus on the dogs; they will get training much faster then at a normal foster house, Jen and John have normal jobs (dogs are just sitting at home) when they come home they then have to take the dog to a trainer to get help to better the dogs chances of a furever home, that’s even if the foster program does this (some one has to pay for this), most times they just do an assessment and then find a foster that fits that assessment. (this dog cant be around cats/kids/loud things, find foster who doesn’t have cats/kids/loud things, find furever home without cats/kids/loud things)

Time will be spent on Training the dogs and removing any unwanted behavior, utilizing multimedia and social media to gain momentum for the dogs and The Dog Farm. Finding special guest speakers and trainers, setting up events to bring in awareness for our cause, going to different places/events with the dogs. Doing what ever is needed to help these dogs find their Furever homes. We would spend time with the possible new Life Partners, teaching them who the dog is and how to share their life with them, going to their home and doing a assessment of house and lifestyle

2)-Food & Medical Expenses. We would try our best to get affiliated with amazing companies, but until we are big enough we dont feel that a Dog food company will donate nor do we feel that a would vet donate too much FREE time. We know how to get these things, but at first it would be harder.

3)- Furever Home Baskets, We want to be able to provide the new Life Partners with every they will need to succeed. Every dog would go to their new Furever home with walking tools, Harness / Leash, food, toys, books, these type of things

4)-Any type of normal day to day expenses – Server costs for website and live streaming of dogs. (We would use Live Streaming, think puppy cam, as a way to bring in awareness and money for The Dog Farm,)

These funding platforms have rewards for participants, each platform would be given different rewards. Patreon for example, different tiers of monthly donators would be given different rewards, access to the live streaming, holiday cards with the Dogs on them, having a voice in what we do, you get something for your efforts, we just haven’t gotten to the point of thinking of these rewards.

More will be added to this as time goes.

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