January 2018 Fostering Dogs

I went on a puppy craze at the beginning of the year.  I've never owned a dog, and I wanted something to love.  We decided to foster dogs to find out which breed and size would be best.  Here are a few of the puppies and dogs that have been fosters or temporary residents (meaning they just showed up and we kept them until we located their owner) that have found our little hobby farm from just January to April of this year. 

Toby Bear!

 
  We almost kept this little guy.  Our friends got him for Christmas and it wasn't working out for them.  They gave him to us right after we contacted the foster agency here in town:  Saving Tails Animal Rescue or S.T.A.R.   When STAR found him the perfect home, we let him go, hesitantly, only because Kayla was showing signs of being allergic.  Yet, that still didn't stop her from loving on him.!     

 

 

 Chicken Thieves! 

 

This large dogs found our home and the Hound just couldn't resist biting into one of our roosters that like to jump the fence.  I chased him into the woods and pried the chicken from his mouth, which amazingly lived!  We took the hound to the pound (sniff sniff) after trying to find the owners. However a week later....guess who shows up again?  And this time he brings a friend! 

 

 So I took both dogs into my house because they wouldn't leave the chickens alone.  I called the pound and told them I didn't want to bring him in again and asked them to call the owners and give them my contact information so they could pick up their dogs.  They did this and the owners called within the hour.  They were kind people and very apologetic.  They picked up the hound and asked if we wanted to keep him!  ha ha.  He was a great dog, but a chicken killer non the less.  We passed on keeping him.  They also said the pit-bull was not theirs. 

 

Later we found the owners of the pit bull.  Her name is Molly and she was a sweet heart- full of crazy energy.  My oldest wanted to keep them both, of course.

 

 

 

Puppies!!!

Big balls of cuddly LOVE!  These guys were a huge hit with my girls while they stayed a few days with us when another foster had to go out of town. 

Boe and Sassy!

Puppy Mill Dogs.  These guys were so timid when they first arrived.  But warmed up with love and patience.  They really liked my kids.  Boe is a daschound mix and Sassy is a Toy Fox Terrier mix.  Boe was adopted by someone in Kentucky and had to be shipped.  Sassy is still here, for now, and is our only foster dog at the moment  (April 2018)