Want to Volunteer?

Mastiff Hope Volunteers are needed to do home visits, transport dogs, and foster rescues.

Procedures for volunteering include:

Fill out the Family Profile—all volunteers go through the same screening process as our adoptive homes.

Fill out the Mastiff Hope Volunteer Form

Everyone involved in Mastiff Hope is a volunteer.  Any individual may volunteer to assist. Once a volunteer has submitted the appropriate forms and been approved, they will be issued a Volunteer Handbook, including Mastiff Hope’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Operational Guidelines.  A Volunteer Agreement Form will be included which states that the volunteer has read, understands, and agrees to abide by the SOP. Once the Volunteer Agreement Form is signed and received by the Mastiff Hope Coordinator, the volunteer may act as an agent of Rescue. Volunteers will work under the discretion of the Rescue Coordinator.

Volunteer Opportunities

We are always looking for good people to help us in this much needed rescue program. You can help as much or as little as you can personally handle, whether that is in the form of long-term fostering, simple transportation to new owners/ fosters, home visits, or anything in between.

The first step along the way is to fill out our family profile form. Once that is received, we will contact you to arrange a home visit.  We are always in need of people who are able to provide temporary foster care for dogs in need until they can find a forever home.   To get started, please head on over to our Family Profile form.

Interested In Fostering An English Mastiff?

Foster homes for English Mastiffs are temporary homes. When we have a Mastiff who has entered the Rescue network, we often need a temporary home for the dog until we can find a prospective adoptive home and qualify the new family as suitable. "Foster families" have a very tough job, but a very gratifying one and most of all, a critical one.

What Foster Families Do

Foster families have to be willing and able to do such things as take a Mastiff into their homes for, hopefully, brief periods of time and work with the Mastiff to evaluate its temperament and health.

Foster families should be able to work with a dog, evaluating its temperament, its suitability with children and other animals, and what the dog is like. Sometimes foster people take the dogs to obedience training to see how it reacts to others and new situations.

Those willing to foster Mastiffs are really on the front-line of the rescue work. They must be able to say when a dog is not suitable for rescue. (And they must be able to give a foster dog up to its new home!) Rescue can reimburse some expenses for the dogs, but we do not have an open ticket for any dog, so foster homes will be asked to pay for the standard upkeep for the foster Mastiff....food, water, etc. If the dog needs surgery or extensive vet care, the rescue committee must approve any expense before it is incurred.

When the time comes for the dog to be adopted, the foster family may be asked to meet with prospective adoptive families and work with them to ensure they understand the needs of the dog and their commitment to it.

What are the rewards?

The tremendous sense of satisfaction that you've helped save a wonderful dog!

The wonderful network of friends that you build through rescuing!

You'll never be bored in the evenings/weekends!

You meet and create more Mastiff fans and friends wherever you go!

Please complete the Family Profile form if you are interested in fostering a Mastiff and/or helping the Mastiff Hope rescue program find it a home.