Should I foster while I wait for my new dog?

I think its a wonderful idea! But isnt Giz dog agressive? How would she deal with having another dog in your home?

I'd think of fostering a young adult or older dog. Pups get adopted rather quickly and if you foster a pup it could be taking away the chance of an older dog. Also, IMO it would be much more difficult to give up a cute little puppy then it would be an adult.

Good luck with your decision and bless you for wanting to help save a life!

This sounds worthy to me. I think I'd stay away from dogs with serious health or emotional issues and/or anything else that would make them difficult to place permanently. A good starting point IMO would be a relatively young dog that was placed because no one bothered to train them and/or kept them as backyard ornaments. You can make a remarkable amount of progress in a short time, save a life, and make some people happy too.
 
Whatever your decision, wishing you the best with your puppy to be!

Giz does wonderful with my parents dogs and doesn't show signs of agression while playing with them.  When she is out in the open at park and places like that she can become aggressive.  It has been a struggle but I've managed to get a handel on it.  This is what is hard about making the choice to foster.  I really want to do what is best for my own dog but also want to help anouther.  I would save a life while a waite for another life to be brought into this world.

Again I think it would be a wonderful experience so that you can get Giz used to other dogs, and so you can learn what, if anything bothers her about them.

That way when your pup comes home she is already used to sharing her space

Fostering is GREAT and very rewarding, but please be aware of pros AND cons.  I'm going to start fostering for GSD rescue this year or next, and because of certain constraints, I can only take certain kinds of dogs.
 
 - I do not have time for dogs with serious emotional/behavioral issues
 - I can try and take on a dog aggressive animal, but only in a "must be fostered" scenario
 - I will not take any animal that has issues with cats.  I've got three oldies and won't have them mangled
 - I will happily take puppies, young adults, AND seniors.
 - I cannot take dogs with serious health issues.  I just don't have the money for it
 - I can take a dog with dysplasia as long as I'm not the one paying for it.  Sounds selfish, but I'll be living in an apartment with 2 dogs and three cats.  Can't pay for a $3000 surgery.
 - I will do home visits, and I will socialize and train dogs as needed
 
 
Those are just MY guidelines for fostering.  Fostering is a lot like adopting a dog...it's just a temporary adoption.  So, just like adoption, the rescue wants to fit you with the foster animal that best fits your lifestyle or personality, or fostering is fruitless. 
 
You have to ask yourself what is reasonable to deal with in a foster dog.  You have to ask yourself what's fair to your OTHER pets, because they need to be considered too.  You have to ask yourself "When the time comes, can I give this animal up?" because there are some that will just really pull at your heart strings.  You also have to ask yourself "If something happens to me, one of my pets, or this dog because it did something foolish, can I live with that."  You have to ask yourself "Can I live knowing that though I did everything I could for this dog, it just wasn't meant to be," if an adoption falls through, or if the dog dies during, say, heartworm treatment?
 
Sounds like a downer, but they are all things to consider.  There are times when you will ask yourself "Why did I do this?  Why do I put myself through this?"  And then you get your next foster and you say "Yeah, now I remember."  You end up taking an incredible pride of your temporary charges, and it really opens your eyes and heart up.  It's a great experience if you let it be, but the hardest thing to do is let a dog go, either to a new family (because you do become attached to them and it feels like they're one of yours) or they succumb to a disease.
 
If you think you have the time, space, energy, and resources to foster, do it!  There is always a shortage of foster homes, but consider everything in your life before you do, because it is a HUGE committment.

I've thought about how I would even go about finding a dog to foster.  I know I could easly go to the pound pick a dog that no one wants for whatever reasons, give it a little training and then find it a home on my own.  That would be a little difficult and take so much of my own personal money that I don't know if I could even aford to do that.  So I would like to go through a foster program instead, they can easly help me with any problem I might run into and because they are a well know program it would be easyer to place the dog in a good home. 
 
I think I'll start calling around and see what happens.  I have a whole lot of experance working with injured dogs that I would even be willing to take in any in that condition as long as the rescue group is willing to pay for some of the vet bills.  I do have to say I do have my standard on what I find acceptable for me to foster and with my own dog I'm have to be carefule of the other dog's temperment.  I hope this works out.  I'll keep everyone updated.