TIA TALK - Good Monday?

That’s actually the problem — laws like this sound good on paper, but in reality, they guarantee that fewer dogs will ever get the chance to experience a foster home. Most fosters are regular people with jobs, kids, and lives. They’re willing to open their homes out of compassion, not because they want to be treated like a state‑licensed facility. When you add: mandatory licensing unannounced inspections annual state‑required trainings affiliation requirements possible fees …you don’t “protect animals.” You just shrink the foster pool to almost nothing. Shelters are already overwhelmed. Dogs are already being euthanized for space. The only reason many of them survive is because everyday people step up to foster. If you turn fostering into a bureaucratic process that feels like running a regulated kennel, most of those people will simply stop volunteering. Fewer fosters = fewer dogs saved. It’s that simple. Good foster programs already provide training, oversight, and support. Adding state‑level red tape doesn’t improve outcomes — it just makes it harder for dogs to get out of kennels and into homes where they can decompress, learn, and thrive. If the goal is to save more animals, this is the opposite of the solution.