Regrettably the system requires at least one star. I fostered a dog through the Dogs Trust. The Dogs Trust employee was late for every single monthly home visit due to various dramas and the visits were interrupted by calls. I accepted they must be really busy, so imagine my surprise when I learnt after 3 months that two Dogs Trust employees were responsible for just 10 dogs between them. I contacted them once in three months, no drama from one of the ten dogs! I learnt that most of the foster carers had never had a dog so knew nothing at all. Despite my vast experience with dogs I was parented constantly about what I should be doing (the advice made the issues worse and the employee conceded I probably knew better because I lived with the dog!). At a monthly home visit I was told what a great job I was doing. I had been honest about an incident that occurred several weeks previously, a photo taken same day that I hadn't been aware of in a private group on Facebook, I heard about it an hour later and the post was deleted. I reassured the employee that it was in the past and demonstrated my understanding of how important confidentiality is. An hour after the home visit I received a call from the same employee asking me for details of the person who had posted the photo, I was working in heavy rain and explained I'd find out details later, it wasn't a good time. An hour later I'm told the dog was being taken away. That poor little dog, already pushed from pillar to post and spent 4 months in kennels before he came to me, had just adapted to his new life and they took him away because I couldn't jump when they wanted me too. I was informed by another employee who collected the dog that they had done a risk assessment and made the decision. WHAT RISK? And how can a risk assessment be complete without input from the foster carer? It was clear that their insecure egos were more important than the wellbeing of a dog, that wielding that tiny bit of power was more important to them. An absolute disgrace, effectively they're being paid to damage dogs. I haven't got a single good word to say about them.