Life with foster dogs

It has been a busy week. I have been debating about what to post next. I was thinking of introducing you to foster dog number three. I have changed my mind, however, after the interesting seminar I went to Saturday. Rover Rescue is now working with Rock Kennel in Shabbona. Lauren, the trainer there, offered a class on dog to dog interactions. Rover Rescue encouraged all of its foster parents to attend. I signed up and was super excited to go. Unfortunately the weather Saturday decided not to cooperate, the class I had gotten signed up for was postponed until next week. I was bummed because I have to work next Saturday and would not be able to attend the rain (snow) date. I sent Lauren an email to see if there was anyway I could do one of the classes earlier in the day that had not been postponed. She wrote back that she had a cancelation in her 9 am class. Sweet! I am so happy I got to go. I learned so much. I did not realize there are different play styles in dogs and that because...

Originally today’s post was going continue with my previous foster dogs, but something happened today that I wanted to share. Today we had an adoption event. Rover Rescue is all foster based, we do not have a central location. To help get our dogs out for the public to view we hold events where we bring out the foster dogs to preset locations (usually a pet store). Today’s event was at a Petsmart we frequent often.  We set up our chairs inside and hang out with the dogs. When people come up we tell them about our foster. My current foster is a dog named Rocky, although he has gone by Loki as well. He was originally my 4th foster dog. We met is September of 2018. He eventually found a family in March of 2019. In August of 2019 Rocky was returned for jumping his new family’s fence on a weekly basis. He has been with me since. He is a good dog, but has his quirks. It is definitely taking awhile to find his perfect fit. Adoption events can be stressful, both for the dogs and th...

I made it through my first foster in one piece. If I can get all my fosters adopted this quickly, think how many I could save. The transport comes in every 2 weeks, so I now had a week to wait before getting my next foster. I could look through dogs available to pull however, so I did. I put in my request for what I was looking for: male, over 6 months, under 50 pounds. I found out I was getting a super cute 7 month old hound/lab mix named Mickey. The day came to go get my new boy. Mickey ended up being more like 60 pounds and he was a shepherd mix. He was gorgeous and so sweet! Some people told me he looked like a Dutch shepherd. Mickey was a little more than my family bargained for. He had tons of energy and did not realize his size. He tried to play with the smaller dogs, but ended up intimidating them. He bounced around the house and didn’t care what furniture got in his way. I had to get a new locking garbage can because he got into the garbage. He counted surfed and stole foo...

Happy 2020 Everyone! In 2019 I endeavored to start a blog, but didn’t get very far. I want to blog about my adventures being a dog foster mom for Rover Rescue in Aurora, IL. I have been fostering for over a year and I did not realize how rewarding it would truly be. I have so many people tell me they could never do it, they would get too attached. I look at is as I get to have so many more dogs in my life because of fostering. So this blog will hopefully help educate people about fostering. I had a friend ask me about fostering several years ago. At the time I was getting ready to get married, buying a house, and starting a new family with my husband, his dog, my dog, and myself. It was not the right time, but it put the bug in my ear. I decided is was something I wanted to do. So probably about 6 months after we got married and our dogs had settled in I made the leap. I decided to go with Rover Rescue because my mom had recently adopted a dog from them and was so happy with the gr...