If you stay in rescue long enough or become involved enough, rescue will at some point inevitably break your heart. The sad truth is that you cannot save every dog. Sometimes you cannot even save a dog that you bring into your home and fall in love with. After having my heart broken this past [...]
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In her previous life her name was Diggs. Once I found out that she was coming to me I knew that I wanted to find a new name for her, a special name, a name with meaning. Off the top of my head what I thought of was Hope and Faith. But those two names [...]
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Thank you to everyone who has been donating to help us with the costs we incurred to bring dear little Minnow-bun to Minnesota. Minnow is also thoroughly enjoying the wonderful high quality dog food she is eating courtesy of Nutzy Mutts and Crazy Catz in Madison, WI.
We went to the vet Wednesday and other than [...]
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“How do you let them go?” As a foster parent, it’s the number one question I get. It’s asked in tones of awe or curiosity or even disgust (after all, aren’t people who give up cute little puppies the bad guys here?). I have a variety of things I tell people when they want to [...]
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Xerxes had a meet-n-greet with his potential new sister. As you can see they got on famously!
Plum tuckered out!
Paws crossed for Xerxes.
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Well lo and behold we had available fosters. So Rachel and I headed off to Minneapolis Animal Care and Control last Friday. Who did we find still there? George, that’s who. You will remember George from this post . I was able to pick George up yesterday and bring him to his new foster home. [...]
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I’ve been with my foster mama for almost 7 weeks now. When I first came to stay I was a shy, scared and unsure little puppy. But fast forward to today and I absolutey love and embrace life!
When I first met my new and much bigger 4-legged foster brother and sister I will admit that they tended [...]
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Bishop is our foster dog. He’s been with us for just over a month now, and we’ve learned a few interesting things about him. There is a minor health footnote; he has two inverted nipples that, some time in his past, became infected and developed scar tissue around them, so they’ll require frequent cleaning for [...]
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A little over four months ago I wrote a post just after I brought a new puppy into my house. At that time I wanted to remind myself why I had decided to bring this dog home. Last night, for completely different reasons, I needed to remind myself again why I foster. I needed [...]
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Volunteer extraordinaire and foster mom deluxe Paige composed such a beautiful forum post that I wanted to share. So many of us who foster can identify with this experience. We have all been there at some time. It is these moments that make or break us. For the lucky of us it is these days [...]
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