New Volunteer Questionnaire

Phone Interview Checklist
Please ask all questions, they may not want to foster but may change their mind in the future.
Name of volunteer being interviewed(Required)
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Email of volunteer being interviewed(Required)
Name of volunteer completing the interview(Required)
First Last
Email of volunteer completing the interview(Required)
Date interview completed(Required)
How did you hear about SNORT?(Required)
Do you volunteer for other rescues or have in the past? Why do you want to join SNORT?(Required)
If they left another rescue, why did they leave?
How many people live in the house (age, sex, relationship to you and if everyone is on board with you joining SNORT)? If children: how are they with pets?(Required)
Emphasize that they will need to educate their children about incoming foster dogs, how they will need to be slowly introduced to everyone in the house and that these dogs may not have had a happy past. Please emphasize that children should be supervised at all times when around the foster dog.
What is a typical day like during the week at your home?(Required)
What is a typical day like on weekend at your home?(Required)
Do you have any experience with brachy dogs and if so, what experience?(Required)
Do you have any dogs, cats, other pets in the house (age, sex, spay/neutered)?(Required)
If so, ask them about each pet’s temperament with incoming dogs and describe the personality(ies) of their existing pets. Submissive? Dominant? Aggressive? Playful? Friendly?
Ask how they would like to help SNORT, transports, fostering, fundraising, home visits, reference checks?(Required)
Please discuss dog food and the importance of SNORT’s requirement of feeding foster dogs a high quality food.
Tell them about a great website http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/ that helps you pick a good quality food If they need help picking out a good quality. Also bring a list of examples of good quality food such as Solid Gold, Taste of the Wild, Orijen, Wellness, Evangers, Natural Balance, Merrick, Innova, Acana, Nature’s Variety, Annamaet, VeRus, Fromm, Back to Basics, Blue Buffalo, Canidae, Chicken Soup for the Soul and EVO. Explain to them if they have any questions regarding food that they should reach out to their foster manager.
Please discuss over vaccinations and the importance of checking all paperwork that comes in with their foster to ensure that their foster dog doesn’t get a vaccine that they don’t require.
They can’t rely on their vet to go through all the old vet records as they are very busy and often miss going through old records. Please explain that ALL vaccines must be cleared through their foster manager BEFORE your vet administers any vaccines. If not authorized by their foster manager, the foster parent will be responsible for paying for the vaccines. If their foster came with no records, they need to reach out to the incoming foster coordinator to check if any records were received. If there are no records, then they should have their vet do a “distemper/parvo titrr test”. SNORT does not permit any SNORT foster to be vaccinated with the DHPP (distemper) vaccine. Please emphasize that all vet visits must be pre-approved by their foster manager in order to be paid by SNORT.
Please describe your house, stairs, areas to gate off a foster dog, pool (is it fenced off?).(Required)
Do you have a yard?(Required)
If so, ask if it is fenced with wood or wire fence. Explain even if the yard is fenced, SNORT requires that all fosters be supervised at all times including in fenced yards. We’ve had a lot of escape artists escape out of fenced yards. If they do not have a fenced yard, ask how they intend to take the foster out and how often.
When indoors, will the dog be in a crate, basement, garage, free run of house, limited area of house (please explain)?(Required)
When outdoors, will the dog be in a fenced yard, tethered, kennel, outside shelter, other (please explain)(Required)
What sort of daily activities will you include your foster dog in? (If they indicate swimming or boating, they should know that frenchies, bostons, and pugs can’t swim).(Required)
How would help a foster dog that is shy or nervous?(Required)
Are you ok with fostering a dog that isn’t house trained and if so how would you house train the foster dog?(Required)
Would you feel comfortable fostering a dog that has separation anxiety?(Required)
Would you feel comfortable fostering a dog that has a health condition requiring regular vet care?(Required)
How do you feel about euthanizing?(Required)
How do you feel about spaying/neutering?(Required)
Are all of your dogs on heartworm preventative and flea and tick control? What brand?(Required)
Are your pets up to date on the vaccines and if so, which ones?(Required)
If the volunteer is going to foster, ask him/her if he/she owns or rents their home and if he/she is renting their home, please obtain the landlord’s contact information.(Required)
Let the volunteer know you will be calling their vet and ask them to give their vet the heads up that you will be calling so they are authorized to release information to you.(Required)
Please ask any additional questions you may have after talking to the potential volunteer.(Required)
Any questions the prospective volunteer has for us?(Required)
Please contact the Volunteer Coordinating Manager if you have any concerns about this potential volunteer.

Phone Interview Checklist