I am retired and decided to become foster Mom for the dog rescue. I have been doing my own rescue of horses over the years. Now since I am associtated with Love4Canines rescue I can save alot more lives. I pull dogs from the shelters and treat them if they are sick, run them to the vets, transport dogs to other foster homes. Which some weeks is a full time job. I have been very successful with adoptions and have so far this year fostered and adopted out 128 dogs!!! I pull alot of puppies - the shelters are not allowed to keep orphan puppies unless they are 8 weeks old. So I get alot of phone calls to pick up puppies from a day old to 7 weeks. I then bottle feed if needed, and keep them until they are old enough to get spayed or neutered and then we put them up for adoption. I also get calls from the shelters with Moms and litters, or sick puppies that the shelter would have to put down.
So my day may start out normal, but afew phone calls can send me off, and running, networking dogs and then driving out to shelters and picking up dogs. Some I keep here , medicate and treat until better, and then give them to a less experienced foster Mom's in our network. Others stay with me until they are adopted out. Some are emergencies - hit by cars, etc. have to be picked up and immediaely taken to a vet, x-rayed and determine what treatment or surgery they my require. They stay with me whether it's surgery with casts and pins or just cage rest for a month. Then rehab and when they are all beter, they go up for adoption. I have no idea hours many hours I have clocked sitting in vets offices. Nor how many hours sitting up with sick dogs all night - thank goodness for the Jewelry channel at 3:00 am.
I don't have a kennel, all the dogs I pull are in my house. So you can imgine that there are lot of things that can happen round here. Then there is my husband, who carries puppies around and says "Look how cute this one is - you can't adopt out this one." So for our weekly adoptions I have to be the bad guy and pry puppies out his fingers, to load them in the SUV. He has actually been known to cheer when one of his favorites didn't get adopted and he gets to keep it for another week. However - he also gets very upset when they steal food off his plate or chew off electrical cords. He is a home bewer of beer and this week alone the cord to the fish tank, the starter cable to the lawn mower and the cable of his propane cooker for his beer, have been chewed off. So this has not been a good week for rescue dogs. However, it is a good week for the horses, they get to eat the grass on the front lawn, until he can fix the mower.
So, I will post pictures of the dogs that I pull from the shelters, keep up with who is new and who gets adopted, and all my little adventures and mishaps in the life of Foster Mom. Thanks for looking at my Blog.
