10/20/2026
💙🐾 **WOW. JUST WOW. OUR RESCUE COMMUNITY IS SOMETHING SPECIAL!**
Over the past several days, we've been asking for help. And you have answered with an incredible outpouring of kindness, encouragement, shares, messages, and offers to open your homes.
**From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!** 💙
When we shared the news about the Weimaraners needing our help, we knew we were asking a lot of our community.
What we weren't prepared for was just how many wonderful people would step forward, including people from well beyond North Carolina and South Carolina!
And that means more to us than you may ever know.
We've also received questions about why our foster families must be located in NC or SC when we can adopt our Weimaraners to families outside those states.
**That's a great question, and we'd love to explain!**
🏡 **FOSTERING VS. ADOPTING — WHY LOCATION MATTERS**
When a Weimaraner enters our rescue, their foster family becomes an essential part of our day-to-day rescue operations.
Fostering isn't simply providing a temporary place to sleep.
It means working closely with our rescue team while we get to know each dog's needs, coordinate veterinary appointments and medical care, help with transportation, evaluate behavior and temperament, and prepare that dog for a successful adoption.
Having our foster families located within **North Carolina and South Carolina** allows us to provide the hands-on coordination, communication, and support these dogs and their foster families deserve.
We want every dog who enters our rescue to have the best possible experience, and keeping our foster network within our service area helps us accomplish that.
🐾 **BUT WHAT ABOUT ADOPTION?**
Adoption is different!
Once a Weimaraner is ready for their forever home, **we can consider approved adoptive families outside North Carolina and South Carolina.**
Our goal is to find the RIGHT forever home for each dog, even when that home is beyond the Carolinas.
💙 **AND TO EVERYONE OUTSIDE NC & SC WHO OFFERED TO FOSTER...**
Please know how much we appreciate you!
While we may not be able to place a foster dog with you through Tarheel, there may be a Weimaraner rescue closer to your home that would LOVE to have your help.
We encourage you to reach out to your local rescue and ask about their foster needs.
Because at the end of the day, this isn't about which rescue gets the foster home.
**It's about helping MORE DOGS find safe places to land.**
When one rescue gains a foster family, the entire rescue community benefits.
And most importantly, another dog gets a chance. 🐾
To everyone who has applied, reached out, shared our posts, offered encouragement, or simply helped spread the word...
**THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US WHY WE DO THIS.**
Our need for foster homes hasn't gone away, but knowing we have such an incredible community behind us makes all the difference.
🏡 **Interested in fostering with Tarheel in NC or SC?**
https://www.tarheelweimrescue.org/foster
**From our rescue family to yours, thank you for helping us continue to say YES!** 💙🐾