I am a dog person. The end.
I grew up with dogs, I have fostered dogs, volunteered with dogs at shelters and rescues, trained dogs, been a dog mom- forever. Somehow, of the 3 little people I created, one of them is a cat person. My 5 year old is a cat person. It feels good to get that confession out there into the world. Based on his love of cats, we fostered a cat last summer. He loved her, took responsibility to help take care of her, and talked about her all the time. This cat, Petunia, came to us FeLV+ which at the time I knew absolutely nothing about. In fact I knew absolutely nothing about cat care in general. And once we learned more about feline leukemia virus, we just kinda figured she’d live out her days with us. When we got a message that she had an approved adopter, we were all kind of shocked. And then we were excited for her. And then we were sad for us. Petunia is loved and happy and we get sent pictures and updates often! Since she was adopted, months ago, my son still talks about her all the time. He actually cried when we told the kids we decided to adopt our dog, who we were fostering at the time, because he thought that meant we could never have a cat. We assured him that wasn’t necessarily true, and he recovered. So today we welcomed our second ever foster cat, Edith, or E-Diff as the kids have been saying. He set up her bed and bowls and created a cozy nook just for her. I am a dog person, but I am also a my-kids’-happiness person, and this fills my heart!
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Trina
3/4/2023 02:27:25 pm
These animals are so lucky that there are people like you in the world! I also love that you are sharing this with your kids. I truly believe caring for animals helps form caring people!
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eddie hren
3/4/2023 03:21:37 pm
Oh man - I was actually on edge for your kid and then you landed it with such a great and happy ending. This is very sweet and you guys are such generous and good people. Love that. Great post
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Lesley
3/4/2023 04:53:37 pm
Yay! I love hearing your pet adventures! And I'm so happy that K is happy now :)
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Michelle Strezo
3/4/2023 09:27:01 pm
You are amazing to be able to foster all of these cats and dogs who need you! I'm sure it can be an emotional roller coaster when it is time for them to move on - but they have a better understanding of what being loved means from being in your home!
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Heidi C
3/4/2023 09:34:23 pm
How wonderful that you foster animals!
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Kim Ryan
3/4/2023 11:40:18 pm
Such a sweet thing that you did for your son! It is so nice of you to foster and then adopt .
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