'Test Drive' a dog with DC Humane Rescue Alliance

WASHINGTON — Are you interested in adopting a dog but unsure if it may be the right fit? The Humane Rescue Alliance recently launched a new "Test Drive" program that aims to alleviate some of those concerns. 

The new program allows people thinking of adopting a dog to visit an adoption center and take a dog home for seven days, with the option to return the dog, continue fostering the animal, or make the adoption official. 

This is the first time the Humane Rescue Alliance has allowed people to foster a dog on a temporary basis before deciding to make the adoption official.

According to Samantha Miller, acting director of communications for HRA, those who participate in the program will help provide safety and care for a dog as well as ease strains on shelters that are taking in high numbers while seeing slow adoptions. 

There are currently more than 120 adoptable dogs in HRA's care. Miller says several people have participated in the program and ended up adopting. 

HRA adoption centers are open seven days a week from noon until 7 p.m. Visit one of the two locations in order to "Test Drive" a fur-ever friend:

Click here to look through photos of the dogs available for adoption right now.

Godiva has been reunited with another one of her pups after her litter was stolen and she was found abandoned and tied to a pole, the HRA says. CREDIT: HRA