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When mommy first started volunteering for southern California Pomeranian Rescue, the very first thing she did was become a foster pawrent. Queenie’s other foster mom had to have an operation, so Queenie needed a new foster home. So arrangements were made to meet and pick Queenie up and bring her home to my house. here is Queenie the first time we met her:
We were off on our first fostering adventure with a dog that looked like she jumped right off the pages of a Dr. Seuss book, straight from Whoville. Queenie came to stay with us and we just continued our lives as usual and even took her camping with us. She was treated like another treasured pet in our household. here is Queenie snoozing on the bed in the camp trailer:
We took her to several adoption events, as SCPR holds at least three per month, and then it happened: someone wanted to adopt Queenie. When we left home to attend the adoption event that morning, we had no idea that we would be returning home without her that night. The realization was sudden and a shock. here is Mommy, giving Queenie a last hug as the realization was setting in and trying not to cry:
It had been only two months since Queenie first came to live with us. We were having to give her up so soon! then mommy found this poem, and it put everything into the proper perspective:
There has been a long line of foster dogs that have followed Queenie into their new furever homes, stopping for a short while to share a small part of their lives with us: Frankie the handsome deaf and partially sighted, Woogie, Odie the Terrible, candy with her tail tinted pink, Nugget, Scruffy, Snoopy, Gordo, Bambi, Paris, MoMo, Schatzi, adorable Nikki with one eye, Lucky, Stickeen, Captain, Izzey, Sassy half Pom half Corgi, sisters Piper and Ellie. Each dog is a new and different experience
Lots of people tell us that they can’t foster because they wouldn’t be able to give the dog up. They should read that poem. If you foster one dog and then keep it, you will have saved only one life. If you foster a dog and then give it up, you will have saved that one and the next one, and then the next one after that. In the two years that mommy has been fostering, she has saved twenty-one dogs and that doesn’t count the ones that are still at our house now.
Lauren Borcina, this blog is dedicated to you.
Love, Bella
Bella is the star of the PetMeds TV Commercial!