Pound Dogs: Getting Schooled by Pitbulls and Parolees

Pound Dogs: Getting Schooled by Pitbulls and Parolees: "Sometimes I wonder why I dedicate the time I do into shelter dogs. Perhaps I should be spending more time decorating the house or playing v..."

Big clumsy feet!

I got me the biggest most clumsy pup in the world. An Italian Pure Bred Cane Corso that is 6mths old and such a sucky poo!

Ive only ever had small dogs so having a new big dog is very new to me. He drools but not like those big mastiff dogs who slobber all over you. I love him already and so do my little puppies...

Goodbye my lil Squirt

To the sweetest and most loveable foster kitten I have ever loved. I will miss you so much. You gave me so much joy. You and your sister were saved and came into my life with your constant meowing for food, your meow of displeasure, hunger, happiness, playfulness...I can't believe you are gone. My heart is missing a piece of where u were. I'll miss you and hope you are up in kitty heaven sitting on someone's laptop, or poking your head out of someone's sweatshirt. My baby squirt April 19 2010 - June 28 2010. RIP

Rescue Me Drama.

Working for a rescue or running a rescue is not easy. There is always some sort drama associated with it and politics. There's "hardline" rescues and there's the "softer" rescues. You got the more liberal types and the more hardcore communist types. Irrespective the only thing that everyone in rescue should be focusing on is the animals. The animals is the reason why rescues exist. Yet with rescue there's always the drama. Whether the drama is created within or by potential adopters or those abandon or surrender. I think most rescues start off being soft. Then having dealt with the multiple scenarios of people giving up their pets, the abusive cases such as finding out that an animal was purposedly maimed/injured or burnt with acid. It's stories like this that turn the once soft rescues hard.

I would consider myself a member of the cleanup crew. Foster parents are the ones who clean up the issues caused by others. We re-gain their trust, we re-train, re-socialize, re-create ideal behaviors to help make the animals deemed unadoptable to adoptable. Foster parents have no set job. There's no real job description for being a foster. We're parents, We're people with dayjobs, we're also sales people. We're relationship counsellors. We're Psychiatrists and Therapists. However I think the most important role we all enjoy is being the "Flower/gift" Delivery person. This is when we send off our fosters to their forever homes. Sometimes we fail, we end up keeping our fosters. Sometimes we cry as we say goodbye; it's the most self sacricifing trait we put ourselves through and in the end thru the tears, our hearts are lifted. No matter what drama or politics take place in rescue, we foster parents always know that no amount of effort ever goes unappreciated by the animals.