I am so excited we might have a chance to short-term foster puppies for a no kill shelter. I got the call last night @ 11pm. I had expressed some interest in the past. Someone had found an stray pregnant dogs. She was with the shelter one day before she had a c-section and 8 puppies!! They are old enough to find homes now. They place two puppies at a time for short time fostering until they find a home. Could be days, or weeks. They also do thet for older dogs but because I have have children, I thought puppies are the safe route. Besy thing the shelter provide all doggie supllies including food!! There is a little commiment involved because their are eight puppies. They asked that everyone meet at the shelter once a week for doggie play date to solicize the dogs. Whata site. What a happy time seeing 8 puppies playing,that would make you forget about health problems for a bit:) They also ask that I bring the pups to a local pet store to show off the pups so they can find a home.
They wanted me today and get the pups and have my home inspected. I thought I could handle it but I woke up in so much pain today. We had two B-day parties yesterday all day in the hot sun. It was 102!! Plus my house is upside down today. In would a good amount of cleaning to presentable. But maybe next time. If you are interested check out your local shelters.
If you have a dog,I heard local liabaries have dog reading programs. The owner bring dog to library and child reads to dog all you have to do it sit and listen!!
Sleepy,
Being a foster family for a no kill shelter is a wonderful thing...I am not a able to foster much (although I have for very short times because it just happened that way when I picked up a stray)...but I try to support the local shelters...especially the no kill shelter where I got one of my puppies from!
And the reading program is something I had never heard of but it sounds absolutely wonderful!
Bless you for your kindness to animals....from a fellow animal lover!
Sounds a wonderful thing to do. In UK we don't allow shelter to kill the animals they have to keep and feed them until they rehomed. Some animals are too nervous to rehome, so they get a family who "adopt" them and they can go visit them at their shelter, and they receive letters and photographs about the animal etc. It isnt very expensi ve to do either. We do run foster homes for puppies who are training to be helper dogs, they stay with a family until they get used to every day noises and in the home noises etc before they are properly trained for their job. We are a dog loving family and have two shis tzus, our older one is now 17 years old, and the younger one is 9 years. Good luck with the fostering, let us know how it goes, take care x
Good for you doing that, Sleepy...that's wonderful of you! One of my cats was fostered in a home before I got her, so I know how important it is to have people who do that. My problem would be that I wouldn't want to let go of any of the animals! LOL!