About every other week, around midweek, I receive pictures of 100+ dogs that need to get out of the shelter. These dogs are in a shelter in Kentucky that has been overflowing month after month, especially since the floods that devastated the area last fall.
Some are strays, some are surrenders, some are from hoarding situations, and some of their owners have died leaving them no place to go. Each time I receive these pictures, my job is to post them all over social media to try to find them fosters. If we can find a home for them to live in temporarily, we can get them here from Kentucky to Illinois, get them healthy, vaccinated, spayed or neutered, get them used to what life is like in a home, and eventually find their forever home. We recently adopted our foster who came to us in January. He is the absolute best dog ever and adopting him was the right choice. But that has meant that fostering other dogs has slowed way down. And each time I get sent these pictures my heart breaks. I want to do more to save them. I want to bring them all home. My heart generally thinks I could do this, I can handle more dogs. And my heart can. My brain… my body… my sanity… I’m not sure about. Every time I find a dog that catches my attention I send it to my husband and I tell him how this one will somehow be so easy! He always gets logical on me, and so far we haven’t had another foster since we adopted. I just received all the pictures and the same faces that haunted me from last transport are still there. “Sisters” who lived and grew up in the same home- Daisy and Gigi, 10 and 14. I can not stop thinking about them. Do I let my heart win? Or logic?
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Sara T.
3/22/2023 05:55:07 pm
I looked at every single one of those pictures last night and tried to guess how sweet or friendly each one really was. I then asked myself how sweet or friendly would MY dog be with each of them. They've probably all lived through some form of trauma and the last thing I want is my dog attacking one of them. Then, I reasoned that he'd probably be really sweet with a puppy....but dear god we can not handle a puppy right now...we're never home. 😔
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Lesley
3/22/2023 06:45:41 pm
You need ALL the dogs! Just kidding. But seriously, you are amazing and whatever you do is more than enough to help all these sweet pups!
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